Recording Employee Calls at Work in the US
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@Dashrender said in Recording Employee Calls at Work in the US:
Actually no - listening in on calls on their own system is expressly allowed. To me this is specifically additional details saying that the employer can listen in, but must also notify that they are doing so.
My feeling is that they can listen without notification, but must notify to record.
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@Dashrender said in Recording Employee Calls at Work in the US:
Now the question is, does this notification rule stop at employers monitoring their own phone systems? Or does it extend to any and all phone communications?
What is an example of a phone system that is not the employer?
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@scottalanmiller said in Recording Employee Calls at Work in the US:
@Dashrender said in Recording Employee Calls at Work in the US:
Actually no - listening in on calls on their own system is expressly allowed. To me this is specifically additional details saying that the employer can listen in, but must also notify that they are doing so.
My feeling is that they can listen without notification, but must notify to record.
Ok I can see that.
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@scottalanmiller said in Recording Employee Calls at Work in the US:
@Dashrender said in Recording Employee Calls at Work in the US:
Now the question is, does this notification rule stop at employers monitoring their own phone systems? Or does it extend to any and all phone communications?
What is an example of a phone system that is not the employer?
Me a home user calls you, a home user. No business involved at all.
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@Dashrender said in Recording Employee Calls at Work in the US:
@scottalanmiller said in Recording Employee Calls at Work in the US:
@Dashrender said in Recording Employee Calls at Work in the US:
Now the question is, does this notification rule stop at employers monitoring their own phone systems? Or does it extend to any and all phone communications?
What is an example of a phone system that is not the employer?
Me a home user calls you, a home user. No business involved at all.
Or me recording a call to a business... I'm not a business so I don't have a business phone system to record on.
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@Dashrender said in Recording Employee Calls at Work in the US:
@Dashrender said in Recording Employee Calls at Work in the US:
@scottalanmiller said in Recording Employee Calls at Work in the US:
@Dashrender said in Recording Employee Calls at Work in the US:
Now the question is, does this notification rule stop at employers monitoring their own phone systems? Or does it extend to any and all phone communications?
What is an example of a phone system that is not the employer?
Me a home user calls you, a home user. No business involved at all.
Or me recording a call to a business... I'm not a business so I don't have a business phone system to record on.
You are a business, though, you do side work from a different thread. If you take a 1099 for any work, you are a personal business.
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@Dashrender said in Recording Employee Calls at Work in the US:
@scottalanmiller said in Recording Employee Calls at Work in the US:
@Dashrender said in Recording Employee Calls at Work in the US:
Now the question is, does this notification rule stop at employers monitoring their own phone systems? Or does it extend to any and all phone communications?
What is an example of a phone system that is not the employer?
Me a home user calls you, a home user. No business involved at all.
Who calls isn't the question, but who records. All of my phones overlap with work, and you work from home on the side. We are a bad example, business on both sides. Individuals are typically businesses, it might be less clear than you are imagining. Hard to find even a home phone that doesn't qualify as a business in some capacity, if any.
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When I call a company, I often get an automated answer, alerting me to the fact that the call may be recorded, before being transferred to the menu or operator.
If an employee calls me, I'm not notified that the call may be recorded. Should the first thing the employee tells me is that the call might be recorded?
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@FloridaMan Yes, if you are being called by say Time Warner, and if Time Warner wants to be able to record the call, the employee or automated phone system needs to tell you, this call may be recorded.
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@FloridaMan said in Recording Employee Calls at Work in the US:
When I call a company, I often get an automated answer, alerting me to the fact that the call may be recorded, before being transferred to the menu or operator.
If an employee calls me, I'm not notified that the call may be recorded. Should the first thing the employee tells me is that the call might be recorded?
If the call might actually be recorded, heck yeah. There might be cases where they do not need to do that, but it is very unlikely that that employee could know when those cases might come up because it is the physical location of the other party, not the number that they call or where they are based or what their activity is, that matters legally. They could easily be violating federal, state or even international laws.
