Employee Privacy: Kentucky

Federal law and guidance on this subject should be reviewed together with this section.

Author: Wendy C. Hyland, Fisher Phillips

Updating Author: Brightmine Editorial Team

Summary

• Kentucky law recognizes the right to privacy, which sets parameters on an employer monitoring of employee activities. See State Law Recognition of the Right to Privacy.
• Kentucky employers are prohibited from monitoring or recording conversations or telephone calls of employees without consent of at least one party. See Wiretapping and Electronic Monitoring.
• If an employer seeks to photograph employees and engage in workplace surveillance, it should have a legitimate business related reason for doing so. See Surveillance and Photographing Employees.