Employer monitoring of employees

Employer monitoring of employees - Monitoring of Flexible Work Arrangements Abstract This thesis focuses on three areas of interconnected legal issues, institutes, and topics that all come together within the scope of labour law and the actual industrial relations. The first area covers the protection of privacy and integrity of the individual as stipulated by the constitutional standards, general legal regulations, European standards, and binding international treaties and conventions. The second area covers the industrial relations as such; however, special emphasis is put on the protection of privacy and integrity of employees. Finally, thethird area covers the employee monitoring by the employer - at theusual workplace as well as when working remotely, usually from the employee's home. In the introductory part, the above mentioned sources of law are analysed and the normative framework is described, setting the limits of legitimacy and legality of employee monitoring by the employer. Subsequently, various monitoring forms and methods are examined, applying descriptive and analytical methods to understand different aspects of employee monitoring in various environments and types of industrial relations. In this part of the thesis, the author analyses and predicts the impacts and consequences of each..