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 RightsV. 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 theContemporary Paradigm of Employees’ PrivacyI. Introduction II. Theoretical Conceptions of Privacy: Towards a Better Understanding in Law III. A Contemporary Paradigm of Employee Privacy