Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Uses and Abuses of Communication Systems in the Workplace; Chapter 2 Legal Liabilities Arising From Misuse of Email and the Internet; Chapter 3 Unlawful Harassment; Chapter 4 Confidentiality Issues; Chapter 5 The Employment Contract; Chapter 6 Monitoring Telephone Calls, Email and Internet Use; Chapter 7 The Implications of the Human Rights act on Employers’ Right to Monitor; Chapter 8 Email and Internet Policies and Guidance Notes; Chapter 9 Introducing New Policies, Rules and Procedures; Chapter 10 Security and Tackling Email and Internet Abuse; Chapter 11 Disciplinary Procedures and Dismissal;

About the Author

Lynda A C Macdonald is a self-employed, freelance employment law advisor, management trainer, and writer. For fifteen years, prior to setting up her own consultancy business, she gained substantial practical experience of employee relations, recruitment and selection, dismissal procedures, employment law and other aspects of human resource management through working in industry. With this solid background in human resource management, she successfully established, and currently runs, her own business in employment law and management training/consultancy. She is also appointed as a panel member of the Employment Tribunal service in Aberdeen, where she lives. Lynda is a university graduate in language and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Additionally, she has an LLM degree in employment law.