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I agree. There needs to be an employee's bill of rights that protect privacy and protect people against abuse. Electronic intrusion should be one of the things on it. I would also ban the practice of checking a potential employee's credit. Plenty of people have bad credit through no fault of their own. Getting sick in our atrocious health care system can get you bad credit. Then when you're well enough to work again, you can't get a job because your credit sucks. I would also ban "at will" work where you can get fired for any reason, good or bad. The employee bill of rights should state that an employer has to have a valid reason to fire someone such as their work is poor quality, their attendance is poor, etc. If an employer finds out a worker is a member of Democratic Socialists of America or a member of the NRA, that is NOT a valid reason to fire anyone. (If they preach and make a nuisance about it at work, that's different.) Work relationships between an employer and an employee should be about a person doing the work in a quality way. Period.
They used to ask if you belonged to any organizations which was another angle for discrimination.
Look, from experience I can say that when there is a very strong labor movement in this country employers aren't so liberal with discriminatroy practices.