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Submitted by mysticangel2 on December 17, 2006
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A Shadowed World:
Employee Privacy Rights in the Workplace
April M. Cox
Axia College
Com 120 Effective Persuasive Writing
Elpidio Estioko
July 09, 2006
A Shadowed World:
Employee Privacy Rights in the Workplace
In a society where people put so much emphasis into issues such as Patient and Client confidentiality, it is a wonder why they do not put as much emphasis into the issue of employment confidentiality. When it comes to employee rights to privacy, they do not know what those rights are. Do they even realize how and why they are violated by their employers? What does the government do to protect them? And what can the people do to protect themselves?
There are many aspects of employee Privacy Rights that are violated but there are not enough laws that will effectively protect them or even guarantee their protection for that matter. (This is my thesis statement I did not change it as Mr. E. Suggested because it was the same one he originally suggested before I did this assignment, I just moved it to the beginning of the document and also reused it at the end).
There are many areas to look at when it comes to dealing with employee privacy rights. One such area deals with the issue of personal information. Where identification theft is a rising epidemic in America, personal information is no longer safe. In his article, "The growing threat of identity theft and its complications for employers," Russell A Jones, stated, "Identity theft has increased dramatically over the last several years across the United States, and in 2005 according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), it was the nations leading cause of consumer complaints for the sixth consecutive year, with almost 8.9 million Americans victimized at an economical cost of nearly 56.6 billion dollars." (Jones 2006). Some areas of privacy are strongly upheld by the court system....
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