Can employers listen in on their employees phone conversations at work or to their voice mail messages in the company voice mail system?
Under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), an employer may monitor its employees’ business-related telephone usage at work. Under the ECPA, an employer typically may not monitor an employee’s personal phone calls, even those made from telephones on work premises. An employer may monitor a personal call only if an employee knows the particular call is being monitored and consents to it.
