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Privacy and employees.

By Schmitt, Steve
Publication: Credit Union Executive
Date: Monday, January 1 1996

Credit unions, as employers, have formulated policies to strike the right balance between respect for their employees' privacy rights and the need to provide a safe and productive work environment. These include pre-employment investigations such as credit reports, psychological tests, background checks and drug testing. Other practices are electronic surveillance, office searches, restrictions on off-duty activities and maintenance of personnel files.

What would you do in this situation? Your loan manager says she saw a plastic bag of white powder in a loan processor's drawer and

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