The employment tribunal has recently decided that an employer was within its rights to dismiss an employee who had sent an offensive email to a fellow employee - even though the email was sent from the employee's home computer to the colleague's home computer!
The simple fact that the email was not sent via, nor received by, the employer's computer system did not, in the view of the tribunal, mean that the employer had any less right to protect its reputation. It does, though, create real conflict between the employer's rights and the right of the employee to privacy outside the work environment.
Beware Facebook entries!!
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