The Right to Privacy in Employment

Marta Otto holds a PhD degree from the Department of Law of the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). She is a former scholar of the International Society for Labour Law and Social Security Law, COMPTRASEC (Centre de droit comparé du travail et de la sécurité sociale), and CRiMT (Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la mondialisation et le travail). Currently, she works as an Assistant Professor for Social Security Law and Social Policy, at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Lodz, Poland.

1. Employee Privacy: United States Law
I. Introduction
II. The Origins of the American Framework of Privacy Protection
III. The Constitutional Right to Privacy
IV. Statutory Protection of Workplace Privacy Rights
V. Employees’ Right to Privacy Under Tort Law
VI. Privacy and the ‘Law of the Shop’
VII. The American Model of Employee Privacy Protections
VIII. Summary
2. The Right to Privacy: In Search of the European Model of Protection
I. Introduction
II. The Genealogy of the European Framework of Privacy Protection
III. Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
IV. The 1995 European Data Protection Directive
V. Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
VI. The European Model of Protection of Privacy
VII. Summary
3. Employee Privacy in Canada
I. Introduction
II. The Evolution of Privacy Law in Canada
III. The Right to Privacy Under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
IV. Federal Legislation on the Protection of Personal Information
V. Employees’ Privacy in Arbitral Jurisprudence
VI. Canadian Model of Protection of Employee Privacy
VII. Summary
4. The Right to Privacy in Employment: An Enquiry into the Conceptual and Normative Foundations of the
Contemporary Paradigm of Employees’ Privacy
I. Introduction
II. Theoretical Conceptions of Privacy: Towards a Better Understanding in Law
III. A Contemporary Paradigm of Employee Privacy