HR Tip: The right to privacy

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HR Tip:
You would be in breach of good management practice if you did not arrange for sick employees to be visited. How would you feel if you were off sick and nobody seemed to care? But I understand your concern. The employee's right to privacy means that you should not bang on their door unexpectedly late at night or set up a video camera in the garden of the house opposite.

You do need to keep in touch with sick employees and I suggest that the best arrangement is to ring up beforehand and ask if it will be convenient if you pop in around a certain time. This could be day or evening. As a good employer you will wish to ensure that the employee is not in need of anything, you ought to know how he or she is progressing, and you may well have information or news about the workplace to pass on.

Previous HR and Payroll tips:

May 2007
Confidential information
Sex discrimination
Fixed term contracts
Return from maternity leave

April 2007
Sex discrimination
Deductions from wages
Custom and practice
Disclosing employees' birthdays

March 2007
Making notes in disciplinary proceedings
Discipline and the police
Analysing poor performance
Resignation in a temper
Implied terms of contract

February 2007
Issuing contracts of employment
Unfair and wrongful dismissal
Bullying boss
Persistent absentees

January 2007
Confidential witness statements
Ending a fixed term contract

2006 tips

2005 tips

HR Zone, 31-May-2007
Categories: Employee Reward
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