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Repudiation of secret recordings of superiors and colleagues by employees Newsletters September 09 2015 | Contributed by S Horowitz & Co Employment & Benefits Israel The phenomenon of employees secretly recording their superiors and colleagues has become widespread. The reasons are varied – the employees may be: involved in a crisis; preparing for a lawsuit; or recording just in case, with no immediate reason. Often employees act upon legal counsel that the recording of a conversation in which they participate does not constitute a criminal offence, and that the contents of the recording will be valid as evidence if the dispute ends up in court. However, the lawfulness of hidden recordings and their validity as evidence do not reflect the whole picture, which includes aspects of inappropriate conduct on the part of the employees that may amount to dishonesty and breach of faith. When a cou...

Big Data and Human Resources—Letting the Computer Decide? By Susan McLean , Caroline Stakim , Hanno Timner and Christine E. Lyon on April 3rd, 2015 Posted in Employment Law Employees are a company’s greatest asset, but if the company gets hiring decisions wrong, employees could also be the company’s greatest expense. Accordingly, recruiting the right people and retaining and promoting the best, while identifying and addressing under-achievers, is critical. Many organizations spend a lot of time and effort on human resources issues but do not have sufficiently detailed data to help them fully understand their employees and the challenges that can affect workforce planning, development and productivity. Big data analytics can help to address these challenges, which explains why more and more HR departments are turning to them for a variety of purposes, for example, to: (i) identify potential recruits; (ii) measure costs per hire and return on investment; (iii) ...