Am I legally permitted to track the location of my employees using a GPS device on a cell phone or vehicle?

Monitoring employees through a GPS tracking system can raise serious issues with regard to California’s constitutional right to privacy and may be a violation of California’s Penal Code.

Knowledge of an employee’s off-duty activities may be a violation of the California Constitution’s right to privacy, since in most cases such knowledge is unrelated to an employee’s job performance and therefore not of concern to an employer.

Tracking devices on an employer-provided cell phone could easily be used to monitor an employee during nonworking hours. Even a tracking device on a truck provided to employees for