Review of Workplace Surveillance Act 2005

The NSW Department of Attorney General and Justice is reviewing the Workplace Surveillance Act 2005. The Workplace Surveillance Act 2005 provides a legislative framework in relation to the surveillance of employees at work. The review will determine whether the policy objectives of the Act remain valid and whether the terms of the legislation remain appropriate for securing those objectives.

The period for submissions has now closed.

The following submissions have been received and are available for download:

• Australian Industry Group [PDF, 35KB] (PDF, 36.3 KB) 

• Australian Privacy Foundation [PDF, 398KB] (PDF, 391.9 KB) 

• Australian Services Union [PDF, 198KB] (PDF, 197.9 KB) 

• Australian Workers' Union [PDF, 619KB] (PDF, 608.1 KB) 

• Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union [PDF, 143KB] (PDF, 140.1 KB) 

• Department of Industrial Relations [PDF, 163KB] (PDF, 159.8 KB) 

• Department of Premier and Cabinet [PDF, 496KB] (PDF, 489.1 KB) 

• Finance Sector Union of Australia [PDF, 90KB] (PDF, 88.3 KB) 

• Fire Brigade Employees' Union [PDF, 148KB] (PDF, 148.5 KB) 

• Law Society of NSW [PDF, 89KB] (PDF, 90.9 KB) 

• Master Builders Association of NSW [PDF, 66KB] (PDF, 69.5 KB) 

• PrivacyNSW [PDF, 194KB] (PDF, 193.2 KB) 

• Shop, Distributive & Allied Employees' Association [PDF, 16KB] (PDF, 20.1 KB) 

• Symantec [PDF, 670KB] (PDF, 660.6 KB) 

• Unions NSW [PDF, 228KB] (PDF, 226.6 KB) 

• WorkCover NSW [PDF, 44KB] (PDF, 47.1 KB)