Employee Monitoring: No green light to read employees’ private messages

Helen Hall examines a recent European Court of Human Rights ruling on whether it was lawful for an employer to access a worker’s personal correspondence ‘To avoid liabilities, employers must, as a minimum, have comprehensive, bespoke internet policies in place, clearly setting out employees’ rights and obligations, how monitoring is conducted and how data is …
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Cases Referenced

  • Barbulescu v Romania [2016] ECHR 61