An employee hits a snag with their company’s unlimited time off policy and does an employee have rights to ask for a recorded meeting to not be distributed?
My employer switched to an unlimited time off policy this year and my manager just denied my vacation request for the summer. He said it was too much time to take off. How can they have an unlimited vacation policy and then say I’m asking for too much time?. Employers don’t really mean take as much time as you want — they mean they aren’t going to prescribe a specific number of days that you are entitled to take. This is for several reasons.
Yes, you do have the right to ask that the video not be distributed. You can explain that since you joined the meeting late, you weren’t aware that it was being recorded and that you would have filtered your comments accordingly. You can also explain why you think it wouldn’t be beneficial to the business to share the video. You have all of those rights. What you can’t do is prevent anyone from using the recording if they need it. One compromise would be to edit the recording, if possible.
Gregory Giangrande has over 25 years of experience as a chief human resources executive. Hear Greg Weds. at 9:35 a.m. on