| 英文摘要 |
Due to the particularity of labor contracts, employers usually havethe requirement to know the personal information of their employees orthe labors. Nevertheless, as the natural person in law, the rights toprivacy of the labors must be protected. Thus, how to make sure thebalance of the conflict interests between the employers and the laborsbecomes a crucial issue and worth studying. Since the importance ofthis issue has been emphasized from the 1990s in Japan, this article firstanalyzes the legal framework of privacy rights protections and tries togeneralize a conclusion from the judicial decisions of privacy violationcases happened in workplaces. This article then takes a try to clarify thejudicial decisions of privacy violation cases in Japan on the basis ofhistorical development of privacy right in both the constitution law andthe civil law in Japan. In addition, by classifying the privacy violationpatterns and the legal remedies, this article tries to give somesuggestions from the comparative law point of view as a conclusion. |
