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Collective And Individual Approaches To Protecting Employee Privacy: The Experience With Workplace Drug Testing, Pauline Kim Jan 2006

Collective And Individual Approaches To Protecting Employee Privacy: The Experience With Workplace Drug Testing, Pauline Kim

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This contribution to a symposium on workplace privacy asks what difference it makes to think about workers' rights under a collective as opposed to an individual rights model in a particular context: that of protecting employee privacy. More specifically, it undertakes an examination of the range of disputes between employers and employees over workplace drug testing in the late 1980's and the 1990's, focusing on the differences between cases brought with union involvement and those brought by individual workers acting alone. In doing so, it asks how collective forms of disputing about drug testing differed from individual approaches, and whether …


Privacy Law In The New Millennium: A Tribute To Richard C. Turkington, Gregory P. Magarian Jan 2006

Privacy Law In The New Millennium: A Tribute To Richard C. Turkington, Gregory P. Magarian

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At least since Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren's seminal 1890 article "The Right to Privacy,"' the idea of privacy has sparked some of the most significant and contentious debates in American law. Over the past three decades, Richard Turkington focused his formidable intellect on enriching those debates. Dick's untimely passing in 2004 deprived those of us who knew and worked with him of a treasured friend and a brilliant colleague. The broader legal profession lost a visionary. Probably more than any other scholar of his generation, Dick was responsible for expanding and deepening our understanding of the essential, sometimes elusive, …