Biden Administration Urged to Probe Employee Monitoring Expertise

The Biden Administration ought to examine and regulate how corporations use know-how to surveil and punish employees, a Democratic senator urged in a letter to the US labor secretary.

“The implementation of novel applied sciences to trace, monitor, handle and self-discipline employees is rising attributable to an imbalance of energy within the office and a scarcity of authorized protections or regulatory restrictions on these behaviors,” US senator Bob Casey wrote Friday to Secretary Marty Walsh.The letter urged the Labor Division to tackle “the largely unchecked unfold of invasive and exploitative office surveillance and applied sciences throughout the USA.”

Casey’s missive …