Abstract:

In employment relationships, “supervision” is not only a right but also a duty for the employer. That being said, this practice may easily violate the p ersonal rights of the employees. For this reason, the boundaries of the "supervision right" of employers must be properly identified. For a very long time in Turkish law, this issue has been dealt within the context of international law and with due reference to the general principles of law. With the enactment of the Personal Data Protection Act (Act No. 24/3/2016, however, the whole issue now requires to take another look from a different perspective. This article primarily addresses the question of to what extent the personal rights of employees can be infringed (especially through technological means, like video/audio recordings and e-mail controls) by employer supervision, within the framework of the newly enacted Personal Data Protection Act (Act No. of 6698).

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