Can I record a meeting with my boss or employee?

If you are intending to tape record a conversation with your employer, you should have clear reasons for doing so. Likewise if you are an employer intending to record a conversation with an employee. A tape recorded conversation will contain far more detail than simply taking notes of a conversation. It may well be good to tape record a meeting with consent, so that both sides have an accurate record of what occurred. 

Although covert recording is not illegal as long as one of the parties to the conversation is doing the recording, it is more difficult to justify covert tape recording under the Privacy Act since there is a strong presumption that it is unfair - unless there is a compelling reason that justified collecting personal information by recording.