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Vanderbilt professor says Wal-Mart case calls attention to employer’s right to eavesdrop on employee calls.
Wal-Mart officials have said the employee in the recently reported case was not authorized to make the recordings and added that company policy restricts monitoring of employee communications to instances in which fraud or criminal activity is suspected. However, that policy is not a requirement. "We know from recent surveys by groups such as the American Management Association and others that many firms do routinely monitor employee communications that employees might think is private, without cause of suspicion," says Bruce Barry, professor of management and sociology. (more)
Professor Barry is the author of , "Speechless: The Erosion of Free Expression in the American Workplace."
