Unite to Press Employers on Government Powers to Raid Homes of Employees Working on ID Card Programme:
Unite to Press Employers on Government Powers to Raid Homes of Employees Working on ID Card Programme
Unite, the UK's largest union, is pressing employers for answers to their role in agreeing to powers for the homes of employees working on the ID card programme to be entered and searched.
This follows the disclosure that five companies working on the ID cards scheme have been asked to sign agreements that appear to provide for homes to be searched for up to 25 years without a search warrant.
Unite has campaigned for many years against invasion of privacy in the workplace, and spying on employees by monitoring of telephone, computer use, email and Internet use, CCTV, drug testing. Now the union is complaining about being kept in the dark about this latest threat to employees' privacy, which could involve a breach of the Information Commissioner's Employment Practices Code of Practice
Thank heaven someone is awake out there.