In a 91-page opinion the National Labour Court recently laid down a clear set of rules regarding an employer’s right to monitor its employees’ email messages and other employee uses of workplace IT systems.(1) The rules impose severe restrictions on employers’ rights, subsequently calling for employers to consider modification and reform of their employee privacy…
Category: Workplace
UK: Dismissal for sending offensive email to colleague’s home computer was fair
Blake Lapthorn writes about a UK case: Can an employer discipline or dismiss an employee who sends an offensive email from their home computer to a colleague’s home computer? An Employment Tribunal (ET), in a non-binding decision, has found that in one case the employee could have no expectation of privacy and that his dismissal…
Judge rules emails in Hamilton’s case admissible
Frank Green reports: A federal judge in Richmond has ruled that the government may use emails between former Del. Phillip A. Hamilton and his wife in his upcoming bribery and extortion trial. […] Hamilton’s lawyers said the emails are not admissible because of his Fourth Amendment right to privacy and the privilege of protecting confidential…
Labor Panel to Press Reuters Over Reaction to Twitter Post
Here we go again – just replace Facebook with Twitter? Steven Greenhouse reports: In what would be the first government case against an employer involving Twitter, the National Labor Relations Board told Thomson Reuters on Wednesday that it planned to file a civil complaint accusing the company of illegally reprimanding a reporter over a public…