Bugging employees - legal or not?
Discussion
Hi folks,
I am the Managing Director of a privately owned company (not owned by me although I am a minority shareholder) and I have suspicion that two or more employees are planning to leave and take a large business account with them which would cripple the business. I have no proof and they might be working legitimately but I don't believe this is the case. They frequently have 1 to 1 meetings in our meeting room and my requests to include others who work on the account are accepted in conversation and ignored in practice.
Would I be exposing myself legally if I fitted a discreet voice recording device in the room? Either a device which would allow me to hear the conversation in realtime or one which records for play back in the future would be fine.
Many thanks in advance.
I am the Managing Director of a privately owned company (not owned by me although I am a minority shareholder) and I have suspicion that two or more employees are planning to leave and take a large business account with them which would cripple the business. I have no proof and they might be working legitimately but I don't believe this is the case. They frequently have 1 to 1 meetings in our meeting room and my requests to include others who work on the account are accepted in conversation and ignored in practice.
Would I be exposing myself legally if I fitted a discreet voice recording device in the room? Either a device which would allow me to hear the conversation in realtime or one which records for play back in the future would be fine.
Many thanks in advance.
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