Privacy

(a) In general An employer shall not— (1) monitor or record a domestic employee of the employer while such domestic employee is— (A) using restroom or bathing facilities; (B) in the private living quarters of the employee; or (C) engaging in any activities associated with the dressing, undressing, or changing of clothes of the employee; (2) subject to subsection (b), restrict or interfere with, or monitor, the private communications of such domestic employee; or (3) take possession of any documents or other personal effects of such domestic employee. (b) Private communications An employer may— (1) restrict, interfere with, or monitor the private communications of a domestic employee of the employer if the employer has a reasonable belief that such communications significantly interfere with the domestic employee's performance of expected duties; and (2) establish reasonable restrictions on the private communications of the domestic employee while such employee is performing domestic services for the employer. (c) Relation to other laws This section shall not preclude liability under any other law. (d) Definition of private communications In this section, the term private communications means any communication through telephone or internet services, including sending and receiving communications by text message, social media, electronic mail, and telephone, with an entity or individual other than the employer.