Forcing employees to turn on their cameras for Zoom calls could be regarded as a human rights violation.
About 60% of employees reported being subject to some form of technological surveillance and monitoring at their current or most recent job while remote working, could constitute a human rights violation in the Netherlands.
The Florida-based company, Chetu, now has to pay back the employee’s wages and unused vacation days on top of a €50,000 fine and the employee’s court bills, among other costs. The monitoring also required the employee to share his laptop screen. When he refused, the company fired him for ‘insubordination’ and ‘refusal to work’.
In its verdict, the court referenced the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms: ‘Video surveillance of an employee in the workplace, be it covert or not, must be considered as a considerable intrusion into the employee’s private life,’
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