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Employer: Employee, you must consent to monitoring. Employee: What if I don't? Employer: We will fire you.
by thelastparadise 3y ago
Employer: Employee, you must consent to monitoring.
Employee: What if I don't?
Employer: We will fire you.
- BurningFrog 3y agoConsent is a two way street!
- toastal 3y agoThe beatings will continue until morale improves
- isaacremuant 3y agoWe've been hearing authoritarian minded people for years saying things like "actions have consequences" and "you had a choice, no one forced you to" but coercion (pushing someone to an unwanted choice using an imbalance of power/threat) is simply an illusion of freedom and fairness.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 3y agoMy personal 'favorite' replies in that vein include thinly veiled threats to RTO. 'You come back or we find someone else to do the job.' What is interesting is that those same people no longer add 'your job will be outsourced'.
- capableweb 3y agoEmployee: But what about my health insurance? Employer: Better not make us fire you
- axus 3y agoIt's more like "Read this 50-page employee handbook and send us your signature acknowledging it. You must do this every year." (It is the mostly identical to last year's version but with the employee monitoring added to a clause, and we aren't mentioning what's changed)
- PeterisP 3y agoAt least in EU that clause is not binding, if you sign the handbook (or a contract) agreeing to it, that doesn't give the employer permission to do it - there are multiple precedents with GDPR fines for employee monitoring despite doing what you proposed. Putting it in your employee handbook means acknowledging (in writing) that you have an illegal, prohibited policy, and getting employees to agree to it doesn't make it permitted.
- ahel 3y agoI hope so, even though I don't think I'll ever feel the need to perish on that hill, just to check if it's actually true. Here's my signature.
- PeterisP 3y agoThere's no need to perish on that hill or confront anyone, a report to the local data protection agency should suffice to get it investigated and corrected, although it may take quite some time.