This remarkable and timely book draws together all the strands of law in this controversial area, both de facto and de jure. Its comprehensive coverage includes such eminently useful materials as the following:
- thirty actual company policies regarding on-line communications, from a wide variety of business sectors, with detailed analysis;
- texts of four company codes of practice;
- actual views of trade unions and employers organizations;
- analysis of relevant existing laws on access, monitoring, liability, sanctions, and the rights of employee representatives;
- two proposed model codes of practice, one for the individual user and one for employee representatives; and,
- appendices including Belgium's National Collective Agreement No. 81 and the regulatory bill and advisory opinions that led up to it.