HOUSE BILL No. 5971


     June 25, 1998, Introduced by Reps. Hanley, Brater, Martinez, Hale, LaForge, Schauer, Anthony, Cherry and Schermesser and referred to the Committee on Labor and Occupational Safety.


        A bill to regulate employer monitoring of employee

   communications.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         Sec. 1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the

 2    "communications monitoring policy act".

 3         Sec. 2.  As used in this act, "employer", "employee", and

 4    "monitor" mean those terms as defined in the employee communica-

 5    tions monitoring act.

 6         Sec. 3.  An employer shall not monitor the communications of

 7    an employee unless the employer establishes a communication moni-

 8    toring policy that is in writing, is disclosed to each employee

 9    subject to monitoring, and does all of the following:

10         (a) Specifies the methods of monitoring that the employer

11    will exercise.




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 1         (b) Specifies the communication media that will be subject

 2    to monitoring.

 3         (c) Specifies the type of communications subject to

 4    monitoring.

 5         (d) Identifies the frequency at which monitoring will

 6    occur.

 7         (e) Provides the employee whose communications are monitored

 8    with advance written notice of the monitoring.

 9         Enacting section 1.  This act does not take effect unless

10    Senate Bill No. _______ or House Bill No. _______ (request

11    no. 03779'97 *) of the 89th Legislature is enacted into law.


































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