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This article was published on 12 January 2016 at 18:36.
Employers can control about what your employees do the mail company and are also allowed to fire them when used for personal purposes. This is what is allowing the European Court of Human Rights, which in a judgment ruled that a private company does not violate the privacy rights of an employee when monitoring communications on its corporate account and that the dismissal is justified if it uses them for private purposes .
The case concerns the application to the Strasbourg Court by a Romanian national, that national courts would have to annul his dismissal because due to a violation of his right to privacy. The man has in fact been fired after the employer discovered that he used the Yahoo messaging company letterhead to correspond with his girlfriend and his brother, breaking the internal rules of the company. The Strasbourg judges, however, ruled that the Romanian justice has achieved a good balance between the privacy rights of the employee and the interests of his employer. In particular, they believe that “it is not unreasonable that an employer wants to ensure that employees they complete their assignments during working hours.” They also noted that access to the Yahoo messaging company by the employer was made in the belief that it contained only professional communications and that the contents of private communications was not used by the courts to legitimize the dismissal.
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