German Higher Labor Court Permits Employers to Review Employees' Emails : HL
Chronicle of Data Protection
On February 16, 2011, the Higher Labor Court of Berlin-Brandenburg
Germany ruled that an employer has the right to access and review
work-related email correspondence of an employee during his/her absence from
work (e.g. for reasons of illness or vacation).  According to this ruling,
such a review of the employee’s email is not prevented by an employee’s
right to use the company email system for private correspondence as well.
Through its decision, the Higher Labor Court has contributed to the ongoing
debate in Germany about whether permitting an employee to use company
equipment for private email correspondence leads to an application of the
so-called "secrecy of telecommunications" (*Telekommunikationsgeheimnis*)
and thus effectively precludes an employer's right to access the employee’s
email correspondence at all, including the business correspondence.


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