The Right to Privacy in Employment

A Comparative Analysis
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-5099-0611-6
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

At the beginning of the twenty-first century the term 'privacy' gained new prominence around the world, but in the legal arena it is still a concept in 'disarray'. Enclosing it within legal frameworks seems to be a particularly difficult task in the employment context, where encroachments upon privacy are not only potentially more frequent, but also, and most importantly, qualitatively different from those taking place in other areas of modern society. This book suggests that these problems can only be addressed by the development of a holistic approach to its protection, an approach that addresses the issue of not only contemporary regulation but also the conceptualization, adjudication, and common (public) perception of employees' privacy.

The book draws on a comprehensive analysis of the conceptual as well as regulatory convergences and divergences between European, American and Canadian models of privacy protection, to reconsider the conceptual and normative foundations of the contemporary paradigm of employees' privacy and to elucidate the pillars of a holistic approach to the protection of right to privacy in employment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Otto, Marta

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Arbeitsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Europarecht Europäisches Arbeits- und Sozialrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Recht mehrerer Jurisdiktionen, Synopsen
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Employee Privacy: United States Law

I. Introduction

II. The Origins of the American Framework of Privacy Protection

III. The Constitutional Right to Privacy

IV. Statutory Protection of Workplace Privacy Rights
V. Employees' Right to Privacy Under Tort Law

VI. Privacy and the 'Law of the Shop'

VII. The American Model of Employee Privacy Protections

VIII. Summary

2. The Right to Privacy: In Search of the European Model of Protection

I. Introduction

II. The Genealogy of the European Framework of Privacy Protection

III. Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

IV. The 1995 European Data Protection Directive

V. Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union

VI. The European Model of Protection of Privacy

VII. Summary

3. Employee Privacy in Canada

I. Introduction

II. The Evolution of Privacy Law in Canada

III. The Right to Privacy Under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

IV. Federal Legislation on the Protection of Personal Information

V. Employees' Privacy in Arbitral Jurisprudence

VI. Canadian Model of Protection of Employee Privacy

VII. Summary

4. The Right to Privacy in Employment: An Enquiry into the Conceptual and Normative Foundations of the
Contemporary Paradigm of Employees' Privacy
I. Introduction

II. Theoretical Conceptions of Privacy: Towards a Better Understanding in Law

III. A Contemporary Paradigm of Employee Privacy

Über Autor(innen)

Otto, Marta
Marta Otto holds a PhD degree from the Department of Law of the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). She is a former scholar of the International Society for Labour Law and Social Security Law, COMPTRASEC (Centre de droit comparé du travail et de la sécurité sociale), and CRiMT (Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la mondialisation et le travail). Currently, she works as Assistant Professor at the Department of Labour Law and Social Policy, University of Warsaw, Poland.

Marta Otto holds a PhD degree from the Department of Law of the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). She is a former scholar of the International Society for Labour Law and Social Security Law, COMPTRASEC (Centre de droit comparé du travail et de la sécurité sociale), and CRiMT (Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la mondialisation et le travail). Currently, she works as an Assistant Professor for Social Security Law and Social Policy, at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Lodz, Poland.