Patient Information and Privacy – HIPAA Basics for Arbitrators
What arbitrators should know about the privacy provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)
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Employee Privacy in the Digital Age II. Privacy in the Age of Technology
A panel discussion of employer monitoring of employee computer use, including Internet access. Six scenarios deal with Facebook postings, blogging about workplace conditions, confidential patient… Read More »Employee Privacy in the Digital Age II. Privacy in the Age of Technology
Employee Privacy in the Digital Age I. Employees in Cyberspace: Meeting the Challenges of the Digital Age
Arbitrator Allen Ponak talks about his recent Canadian cases dealing with employee use andabuse of the Internet and other new technologies and the balance between… Read More »Employee Privacy in the Digital Age I. Employees in Cyberspace: Meeting the Challenges of the Digital Age
New frontiers: Biometric information technology and privacy issues
Biometrics is the automated recognition of individuals based on their behavioral or biological characteristics. It poses privacy concerns and ?big brother? issues for employees. The… Read More »New frontiers: Biometric information technology and privacy issues
Workplace privacy
Hypothetical examples are discussed. (1) A waitress is discharged for rudeness but, in the arbitration, the employer does not present the customer complainants, who want… Read More »Workplace privacy
Free speech and privacy in the internet age: The Canadian perspective
Use of the internet, including email, in the organized Canada workplace, the right of free speech, attacks on the public employer by an employee, and… Read More »Free speech and privacy in the internet age: The Canadian perspective
Melding external law with the collective bargaining agreement
A description of the various means by which statutory claims may be invoked in a labor arbitration. Arbitrator Bogue recommends methodologies that arbitrators might use… Read More »Melding external law with the collective bargaining agreement
When arbitration is not the answer: Problem-solving approaches to today’s workplace: When neutrals confront cases of workplace violence.
The author describes the dilemmas posed by potentially dangerous employees, and proposes measures that can be taken to address and remedy the dangers. Recommendations are… Read More »When arbitration is not the answer: Problem-solving approaches to today’s workplace: When neutrals confront cases of workplace violence.
Privacy in the workplace: International perspectives
Privacy in the workplace – drug testing, employee surveillance, searches, screening, physical exams, polygraphs, etc. – in Belgium, Israel and France are examined in this… Read More »Privacy in the workplace: International perspectives
Performance monitoring and arbitration: Management perspective
The authors describe the usefulness of electronic surveillance, the judicial endorsement of its use (except where in violation of the ECPA), the constraint of “unreasonable… Read More »Performance monitoring and arbitration: Management perspective