The Right to Privacy from a Business Ethics Point of View
The Right to Privacy from a Business Ethics Point of View

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I analyze four arguments used by some authors to show that employee’s right to privacy is subject to severe limitations. The first of them is based on company’s property right. I tried to show that this right does not remove necessarily any employee’s legitimate claim of privacy. The second argument tries to show that a company is justified to affect the employees’ right to privacy anytime when this increases their productivity. I tried to show that this argument is not correct. The third argument concerns the cases in which the company has to monitor the employment contract compliance. This can legitimate an infringement on employees’ right to privacy. The fourth argument shows that a company can infringe employees’ right to privacy in order to avoid legal sanctions. The last two arguments are correct.

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