Day: February 3, 2016

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that employers can justify reading their workers’ on-line private messages. An engineer in Romania asked the judges to rule that his employer had breached his right to confidential correspondence, but it was ultimately decided that the individual had broken the terms of his employment by sending messages on company time. Interesting, the ECHR commented that it wasn’t “unreasonable that an employer would want to verify that employees were completing their professional tasks during working hours”. Now of course, this raises some…