While the laws around monitoring the workplace differ, it could be helpful to ask your boss about their motivations, writes Dr Kirstin Ferguson.
Each week, Dr Kirstin Ferguson tackles questions on the workplace, career and leadership in her advice column “
Is it ethical for my manager to be looking through our retail store camera, even if there hasn’t been any theft or stock damage? My manager recently looked through camera footage without giving any notice or reasoning, which has made me feel quite uncomfortable.
“Operating within privacy laws and ethical protocols is a top priority for most retailers, who usually try to do more than required to maintain the privacy of staff and customers. Footage from CCTV cameras isn’t just used to monitor breakage and theft. It’s also used to ensure the safety of team members and customers, mainly in the deterrence of violent and criminal actions.
In our employee handbook, there’s a clause that states if a staff member takes a third, non-consecutive day off sick in a 12-month period, our employer can insist on seeing a medical certificate. So, if I take a day in January because my son decided to swing off the clothes line and break a bone, then a day in June because of a cold, followed by gastro in September, I have to get a medical certificate. Is this legal? Or is it an overbearing requirement?let alone three, as your employer is doing.
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