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Employers have right to snoop on workers' private online messages, Euro court rules
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 7:51
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Employers have the right to monitor their workers' online private messages, according to a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). It comes after a Romanian man was fired for sending personal messages while at work.
The Strasbourg court sided on Tuesday with the employer of a Romanian engineer who was dismissed from his job after using Yahoo Messenger to communicate with his fiancée and brother while at work.
Dismissing the employee's claim that his company had violated his right to privacy by monitoring his messages, the judge said that it was “not unreasonable that an employer would want to verify that employees were completing their professional tasks during working hours.” …. https://www.rt.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2016/01/employers-have-right-to-snoop-on.html
