Wants Some Legal Advice

[AlphA]

Is it legal to have 15 video cameras installed in your shop and record your employees 24/7 ?

Plus stream that video signal over the internet to your home and watch them on your home TV / Computer monitor ?

Then when you not sure what they are doing call them up and ask them what they are doing and why a customer left the shop without an item.

Just wondering..

Seems my mate who has taken over this shop is getting a bit power hungry and fellow employees are starting to question if he can question there every move and invade privacy like this.

I'm questioning this privately if you know anyone that actually knows the law in regards to this I would appreciate some advice.

Cheers.

[dan_the_man]

as long as it doesnt record sound i think he has every right too. sounds like a psycho

[Shayde]

I don't know the legality of it, so I won't say I will.

My work has cameras all over the place and the General Manager can watch these from home. However this is in our employee agreement that everyone signed before starting employment there. There is no audio though.

[Stinky Rooster]

This white paper may answer some of your questions (I hope)

http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/gsb/mbr/as...one/privacy.pdf

You will also want to read a copy of the Surveillances devices Act 1998 (WA) found here

http://www.slp.wa.gov.au/statutes/swans.ns...nForm&Seq=1

Good luck with your research.

[ix9]

No Audio, no colour video, only black and white.

Tell the employees to get knotted, they're there to work not slack off.

Same reason we run internet usage reports in our office

[dan_the_man]

yes sir!

[tigeryas]

they run internet report usage in our office too, and send us usage reports to us once a month, not of our individual usage, but unsolicited emails, images blocked by RGL's mail security, if net usage is too high it gets monitored further to see if it's work related, etc...

15 cameras is a lot aint it Adam?

[Nizmo]

It is - my dad has it in his workshops. He can even view them on his home computer - which he quite often does on saturdays .... caught employees sitting on reception doing their resumes and all.

[dan_the_man]

why not add some 70's waka wow pow porn music to it... make it interesting then set up a live internet stream

that'll really stick it to the man

[Boostzor]

It is - my dad has it in his workshops. He can even view them on his home computer - which he quite often does on saturdays .... caught employees sitting on reception doing their resumes and all.

Doing resumes? they are going somewhere they can not be watched all day?

[Nizmo]

my dad really looks after his employees - in fact he just bought one of them a brand new XR6 .... becuase they've always done the right thing by the company. But unfortunately there's a helluva a lot that dont do the right thing by him - with a workshop environment there's a lot of scumbags - who steal tools, punch each other up and do anything and everything other than work. So that's the reason for CCTV.

Besides if you are doing the right thing ....... you would have nothing to hide anyway and cameras wouldnt bother you.

[Boostzor]

Besides if you are doing the right thing ....... you would have nothing to hide anyway and cameras wouldnt bother you.

That sounds like fascisim to me

Yer i get your point though in that kind of environment it may be called for.

[Nizmo]

at the end of the day - dont like it - dont work there. Sorry peeps but im with kym on this one.

[dan_the_man]

sooo anyway. whats the address for this internet stream alpha... i wanna see u work

[Boostzor]

Motivation should be based on returns not on fear of getting fired. If your employees are slacking off then they dont have enough work or strict enough deadlines.

Kym is a reincarnation of Stalin

[AlphA]

Haha..

Its colour but has no audio.

The guys at work do work hard so I'm not bothered..

Just one of them asked if its legal for him 2 do this.

newbie101: Will check those links out! Cheers.

PS: Dan not letting you spy on me.

[dan_the_man]

Haha..

Its colour but has no audio.

The guys at work do work hard so I'm not bothered..

Just one of them asked if its legal for him 2 do this.

newbie101: Will check those links out! Cheers.

PS: Dan not letting you spy on me.

ur no fun. imagine the sexy msn convos we could have "i'm taking my shirt offf... u can see yes YES SIR!"

[ix9]

Vote #1 Shaun for upper management staff in the "just done a people management course" category

[Boostzor]

I dont need no management course to tell me that employees enjoy carrots more than sticks.