Issue No 100 | 29 June 2001 | |
NewsEmail Surveillance Report Gathers Dust
An important report into workers rights to email privacy has still not been released - more than two months after its findings were released to the media. The NSW Law Reform Commission into Privacy is understood to contain important safeguards for employees from covert surveillance of email communications. But while details of the report were released to the Sunday Telegraph in April, along with a commitment for legislation to match the recommendations of the report - the actual findings remain secret. The NSW Labor Council made submissions to the Law Reform Commission, that email surveillance should broadly reflect existing legislation on video surveillance. Under those laws covert surveillance is prohibited unless an employer receives a court order, while overt surveillance is covered by a strict code of conduct. Labor Council will write to Attorney general Bob Debus seeking clarification on the government's intentions and timetable for this important workers right initiative.
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Interview: Baptism of Fire It�s been a rugged few weeks for Labor Council�s new honcho. But John Robertson accepts it comes with the territory. Politics: Seven Days that Shook Our World Chris Christolodulou surveys the wreckage from a week when the political and industrial wings of the labour movement collided. History: History Sometimes Repeat This is not the first Labor government to attack workers compensation entitlements. Some believe the Unsworth Government�s 1987 reforms were the beginning of the end for that administration. Technology: Unions Online: Where To Now? Social Change Online's Mark McGrath goes looking for what's on the virtual horizon for the union movement. Media: The Printed Word Revisited Rowan Cahill looks at the resurgence of the workers press and the lessons for unions in better communicating with their members. Unions: Time For Second Gear The trends are in the right direction but unions are still drinking small beer in the IT world and need to allocate more resources to communications generally, argues Noel Hester. Satire: Texan Governor Faces Execution The governor of Texas has been sentenced to death row after a jury found him guilty of killing hundreds of people. Review: The Insider Neale Towart looks at a literary anti-hero who brings the factional machinations and double-deals of the ALP machine out of the back rooms and into the light.
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