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About Polly Rodway

Polly trained with RPC and qualified into the Employment, Pensions & Incentives team in September 2009. She has experience of both contentious and non contentious work. She advises on a range of matters including unfair dismissal and constructive dismissal, discrimination
and breach of contract and works on claims in the employment tribunal.

Can employers spy on their employees?

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Polly Rodway

The US media have reported a number of instances in which companies have hired private detectives to spy on workers taking “sickies”.  Surveillance in these circumstances will often be defensible, the US courts having decided that “reasonable suspicion” is sufficient … read more