New Mexico Privacy in the Workplace Policy
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Employees have a right to: Not be harassed or discriminated against (treated less favorably) because of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, disability, age (40 or older) or genetic information (including family medical history).
Employees have the right to keep private facts about themselves confidential and the right to some degree of personal space. An employer that discloses private facts or lies about an employee may be held accountable in a civil action for invasion of privacy or defamation.
Employee privacy rights are the rules that limit how extensively an employer can search an employee's possessions or person; monitor their actions, speech, or correspondence; and know about their personal lives, especially but not exclusively in the workplace.
New Mexico is an employment-at-will state. This means that an employer may generally terminate an employee at any time, for any reason, or for no reason, unless an agreement exists that provides otherwise.
Four Common-Law Privacy ClaimsIntrusion into an individual's private solitude or seclusion.Public disclosure of private facts.Portraying an individual in a false light.Use of an individual's name or likeness.
The two main restrictions on workplace monitoring are the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA) (18 U.S.C. Section 2511 et seq.) and common-law protections against invasion of privacy. The ECPA is the only federal law that directly governs the monitoring of electronic communications in the workplace.
Protecting Your Right to Privacy in the Workplace. The California Constitution protects employee privacy rights and prohibits intrusion into private matters. The use of employee monitoring is a balancing act that weighs the business interests against the threat to employee privacy rights.
Under New Mexico law, employees are entitled to certain leaves or time off, including military leave, voting leave, domestic violence leave, emergency responder leave and jury duty leave. See Time Off and Leaves of Absence. New Mexico prohibits smoking in the workplace and texting while driving. See Health and Safety.
Employers are justifiably concerned about threats to and in the workplace, such as theft of property, breaches of data security, identity theft, viewing of pornography, inappropriate and/or offensive behavior, violence, drug use, and others.
Under the law, all employees have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" which prevents employers from searching employees wherever and whenever the employer wishes. What is considered reasonable depends on factors like the type of employment, whether there is evidence of misconduct, and the scope of the search.
