Secondary abstract: |
»Private« may be understood as contrary to »public«. Private is something that private information is information that may be retained, by way of conduct or wish, in one's possession, and is not shared with others or with the public. Private remains private until the owner decides to share it with other people, and then it becomes public. Once it is public, it cannot become private again.
Pursuant to the Employment Law, employment is a legal relationship between an employee and an employer, in which the employee voluntarily joins a working process organised by the employer, and carries out the work personally and without interruptions, against payment, in accordance with the instructions and under the supervision of the employer. In the employment relationship, each contracting party is required to exercise the agreed and prescribed rights and obligations.
The employee is in a subordinate position in relation to the employer. Over the centuries, the labour legislation has developed which limits the infringement of employees’ rights to privacy by employers. In spite of this, breaches are possible and happen all the time. The thesis deals with some breaches of employee privacy, particularly the most frequent ones. It presents a historical overview of employee privacy protection, and an overview of the legislation, both national and international, currently valid in Slovenia. However, the protection of privacy in the workplace differs in different places. For comparison purposes, individual cases of protection of privacy at work in the USA are presented, where the concept of privacy is essentially different from what is understood by this term on the old continent.
For the purpose of this thesis, a survey was conducted to help explore employees’ perception of privacy at work in Slovenia. I tried to establish to what extent the employees are aware of their rights to protection of privacy at work, what their attitude to different modalities of privacy is, and whether they are willing to report infringements to the competent authority. I also tried to obtain the opinion of the respondents regarding the regulation of privacy in the workplace by the new act. |