[eropple]

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.)

[NewsAware]

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.

[PascLeRasc]

It's always so refreshing to hear about Germany's labor laws. America's pretty much a third-world country when it comes to employee rights.

[el_dev_hell]

> 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.

[narendranag]

There is a difference between working conditions, and labour rights. America has first-world working conditions, and third-world (or worse) labour rights.