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Do Employers Have the Right to Look at Your Email and IMs?

June 19th, 2008 | Author: Jeffrey Powers

The idea of email in the office is to give employees a communication portal to their customers and other employees. Corporate email is an advantage that helps everyone stay in touch. There are still some companies that do not give all their employees email addresses. Some of them don’t need it.

A Federal Appeals court in California ruled that businesses that contract an outside source cannot just ask to see the records of an employee, unless the employee signed a waiver. Therefore if you don’t sign something, they can’t look at it without your permission, although they pay for it. Is that really fair?

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