Can you maybe substantiate this a little? I don't understand why a company recording the meetings of their employees, on company time and regarding company business, would be illegal.
(An individual doing so, on the other hand, might be problematic.)
This would definitely be illegal in Germany where I work as CTO.
Even having employees sign some letter of acceptance of such would still be illegal as a court would assume an employee was in an uneven power position and therefore not able to refuse even if they wanted to.
> America's pretty much a third-world country when it comes to employee rights.
Nope, that's not true at all. Not to play the game of semantic-nazi, but that's legitimately offensive when you look at a "third-world" country's employee rights compared to the US.
I'll take you for a tour in Phnom Penh, Cambodia if you're interested in seeing what a "third-world" country's working conditions are really like.
There is a difference between working conditions, and labour rights. America has first-world working conditions, and third-world (or worse) labour rights.
(An individual doing so, on the other hand, might be problematic.)