Electronic Communications in the Workplace

Processing personal data may be an incidental consequence but difficult to avoid in the day to day operations of the employment relationship. Privacy in the context of the employment relationship is not a precise term but a bundle of not very specifically defined rights and expectations. Generally t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Abrahamse, Sven
Format: Dissertation
Language:en
Published: University of Cape Town 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4604
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Summary:Processing personal data may be an incidental consequence but difficult to avoid in the day to day operations of the employment relationship. Privacy in the context of the employment relationship is not a precise term but a bundle of not very specifically defined rights and expectations. Generally the main focus of privacy rights apply to the restraint of power by the state as defined in Section 14 of the South African Constitution. It could be applied to the employee and employer relationship. The existence of other public interest may substantively reduce the scope of such privacy rights. [...]