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Bugged
by the boss?
If
you've ever left work early, critisised your boss on a company phone
or surfed the net in work time Β– then beware, you could be
watched.
Tonight's
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Wales' Week In Week Out programme (Tuesday 1 July, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ
ONE Wales, 10.35pm) investigates the extent of secret surveillance
at work, and reveals the confusion over what's legal and what's
not.
The
programee looks at the case of Premier Trade Frames factory in Caerphilly
where the management installed a secret camera in the toilets.
It
was there for 15 months before the workforce was aware of its presence.
They
only found out about it when one of the employees was accused of
smoking in the toilets.
"The
employee was distraught. He had no idea, as nobody did, that there
was a camera hidden in the toilet," says Bob Bird of the ISTC
union which represents some of the employees.
"You
do not expect to be filmed in a toilet, you expect that location
to be private."
Premier
Trade Frames admits it was wrong in not telling the workforce about
the covert camera but Thom Emerson, the company's Sales and Marketing
Director, defends its use.
Speaking
on tonight's programme he says: "We
have found drugs on the premises, people smoke in there when they're
not supposed to, they drop toilet rolls into the drains and generally
vandalise them."
Mr
Emerson stresses that the camera cannot see into the cubicles and
has refused union demands for it to be removed but the company has
now put up signs saying the toilet area is covered by CCTV.
Richard
Thomas is the Government's Information Commissioner and author of
new guidelines on workplace surveillance (published in June).
He
has confirmed that covert cameras in the toilet would be a definite
cause for concern and could only be justified if there was suspicion
of real criminal activity, otherwise they would be in breach of
the Data Protection Act.
Week
in Week Out, Tuesday 1 July, 10.35pm, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ ONE Wales
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