| Abstract [eng] |
Modern technologies’ development opens up many possibilities and ways to introduce open or secret employees’ control and monitoring systems, gives an opportunity to penetrate to the employers’ given devices or get employee's personal information. Therefore, master's thesis raises a hypothetical question why employer should or should not use such opportunities. In order to answer this question, the master's thesis is based on reasonable analysis of the problems arising from normal use of information technology and electronic workplace, assessing the need for legal regulation, arising from the general human rights, in particular employee’s right to privacy, standards of international, European and national legislations. The master's thesis analyzes cases occurring in Lithuania, where a number of private and public sector entities implementing electronic monitoring in the workplace is growing. This control is used to observe various activities of workers: the work in the Internet, email, work with other computer programs, internal computer network (intranet), computer’s memory, information stored in servers and so on. Because of the above measures, employers and employees face the problem of finding interest balance: on the one hand, employers aim to protect business interests and try to protect themselves from liability or damages caused by employees, they want to ensure that they preserve a good reputation and prevent additional costs; on the other hand, the fact that an employee uses employer's information technology products does not affect his right to privacy including the protection of personal data. The master's thesis associated with legal regulations summarizes specifically for the practical situation of the use of information technology at work carried out complex questionnaire survey of workers and employers in the spring of 2009 to get results, providing the essential insights of the employee's right to privacy, and the joint of modern technological possibilities and the needs of the workplace from the employer’s side. |
