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BALANCING THE SCALES_Navigating Employer Oversight & Employee Privacy in Kenya

Legal Alert 18. BALANCING THE SCALES_Navigating Employer Oversight & Employee Privacy in Kenya

Despite the entitlement to privacy as prescribed in our Constitution as well as the Data Protection Act, nevertheless, employers wield tools such as email surveillance, CCTV, biometrics, and social media checks to boost productivity and security for their businesses, which often clash with employees’ constitutional right to privacy. Recent judicial decisions reveal how fragile the equilibrium is; between the promise of privacy and employer oversight.

 

Beverly Mabango

Nelly Maina

 

_Legal Alert 18. BALANCING THE SCALES_Navigating Employer Oversight and Employee Privacy in Kenya.pdf