Ready access to the internet and email has changed the workplace in many ways. Employees misuse sophisticated tools like the internet or email to harass or defame their co-workers and even their employers. Most employees have a misleading sense of privacy about their internet and email communications. However, work is not, by its nature a private thing. Employees supply quite a lot of personal information about themselves and should expect their backgrounds and abilities to be fair game for evaluation and investigation. The same sort of expectations should apply to employee conduct in the electronic workplace. This program presents the latest techniques for defining the right of privacy in the workplace.

Recorded: July 22, 2008

- Email has Changed the Workplace
- The Nature and Use of Human Resource Tools Has Also Changed
- The New Role of Human Resources
- The Emergence of Workplace Violence as a Human Resources Issue
- The Rules of Communication Have Changed
- Intel v. Hamidi: A Case Study
- September 2, 98 Hamidi E-mail Message?Part One
- Hamidis Defense to Claims of Spamming
- Hamidi Injunction, as issued
- IS AN INTERNAL EMPLOYEE E-MAIL SYSTEM A PUBLIC FORUM?
- Hamidis Opening Brief to California Supreme Court
- AMICUS ? BOALT HALL
- AMICUS ? ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION
- How is Public Speech Regulated?
- Amicus ? AFL-CIO
- Ground rules for human resources in the electronic world
- Apply Human Resource Principles to internet and e-mail usage
- An access and review protocol for all monitoring and access
- Conducting An Access Audit
- Modifying Employee Policies
- Trade Secret Protection and Human Resources
- A Closing Thought ? Avoiding the Problem

Online Media Type:		Audio
State Hours:		CA, NY, IL, TX, AZ, NJ, CO, NC, IN, TN, VA

Speakers:

Robert Fried Robert Fried is a partner with the law firm of Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud and Romo (AALRR). He manages the Northern California private sector labor employment practice for the firm's Employer Services Practice Group. Mr. Fried is the author of several of California's most respected publications on labor and employment law, published by the California Chamber of Commerce. These include the 2002 Employee Handbook: How to Write One for Your Company, and California Hiring and Termination Guide and Procedures, and California Human Resource Essentials. Mr. Fried is a frequent writer and lecturer on issues of human resources policy for employers and corporate and in-house counsel, through his affiliation with the Employer's Group of California, the Golden Gate Restaurant Association and other associations throughout California. AALRR provides a full spectrum of services in key management areas including labor relations and employment law, construction, education law (including facilities), special education, contracts, corporations, partnerships, estate planning and administration, taxation, bankruptcy, and real estate, AALRR has five offices in California, Pleasanton, where Robert is based, as well as Sacramento, Cerritos, San Diego, and Riverside. Although his practice covers the full range of employment issues, Mr. Fried has particular expertise in wage hour law. He has provided service as an employer representative to the overtime reform panels of the State Industrial Welfare Commission. As long time counsel for construction employers, Mr. Fried has an extensive background in union and construction labor relations, including practice before the National Labor Relations Board. As a trial attorney, Mr. Fried has successfully represented clients in California and federal district and appellate courts, defending companies in employment cases involving trade secrets, wrongful terminations, electronic privacy and the Internet, discrimination, and other complex issues. Robert graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Santa Clara, where he served as editor of the Santa Clara Law Review. Mr. Fried was named one of 12 outstanding attorneys by the East Bay Business Times in their annual review of area attorneys. Top-Drawer Attorneys, East Bay Business Times, June 17, 2005.