You've got mail! (And the government knows it): applying the Fourth Amendment to workplace e-mail monitoring

Article Abstract:

Employee privacy rights are increasingly threatened by employers monitoring of personal as well as business communications on e-mail. The 4th Amendment provides a sound basis for challenging these day-to-day encroachments at least in government employment. A standard of suspicion in individual cases should apply and special needs could be accommodated using the standards for suspicionless searches established by the US Supreme Court in Chandler v. Miller. Government employee protection would likely eventually result in private employee protection through new interpretations of law influenced by the federal standard.

Electronic mail systems, Email, Searches and seizures, Protection and preservation, Privacy, Right of, Right of privacy, Workers

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Reclaiming Title VII and the PDA: prohibiting workplace discrimination against breastfeeding women

Article Abstract:

The author outlines the development of the Supreme Court's pregnancy discrimination analysis and its 1976 General Electric Co. v. Gilbert decision, which held that Title VII did not protect against workplace discrimination based on pregnancy. The overruling of Gilbert by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 is also discussed.

Pregnant women, Breast feeding, Sex discrimination against women

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RCRA in the workplace: using environmental law to combat dangerous conditions in sweatshops

Article Abstract:

The author examines the use of environmental laws, such as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, in remedying hazardous work conditions and concludes that the RCRA could apply to some conditions present in garment industry's sweatshops.

Usage, Occupational health and safety, Occupational safety and health, Environmental aspects, Clothing industry, Environmental law, Sweatshops

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