| Employee Rights and Duties go hand in hand. If | | | | The Organization cannot discriminate between |
| employees have to discharge their duties and | | | | employees on basis of age, gender, race, |
| responsibilities effectively, they must also be given | | | | ethnicity, religion, color, disability etc. If this right is |
| their due rights. The rights of the employees give | | | | violated, the employer or Company can face |
| them a sense of confidence and a feeling of | | | | severe legal implications as they can be sued by |
| belonging to the workplace. It is a way in which | | | | the affected employee(s).o Right to Employee |
| the employer can provide security to the | | | | Privacy: The laws prohibit an employer from |
| employees in return for their commitment at the | | | | monitoring certain equipments belongings to the |
| workplace. The employee rights guarantees them | | | | employees, without their prior knowledge or |
| from discrimination or other unethical and illegal | | | | permission, including computer files, email. It is also |
| practices at the workplace. | | | | illegal to track the locations, movements, tap the |
| These rights should be part of the agreement and | | | | telephone of the employees without their |
| the employees should be given freedom to | | | | knowledge.o Right to Refuse to Submit to a Drug |
| express their dissatisfaction, if their rights are | | | | Test: Though, the employer has the right to |
| violated. The employers or management of the | | | | conduct drug test to achieve a drug free |
| Company or the Organization should take | | | | workplace as per the provisions of Drug-Free |
| instances of employee rights violation seriously | | | | Workplace Act, 1988, the employee has a right to |
| and address them at the earliest. | | | | refuse to undergo a drug test.o Rights against |
| There are some basic employee rights that the | | | | workplace retaliation: The laws, especially the |
| employer must guarantee at the workplace, as | | | | Employment and labor laws, guard the employee |
| per the Federal law. Some of them are | | | | from retaliation by the employers, in event of the |
| summarized below.o Right against discrimination: | | | | employees exercising their rights at workplace. |