The privacy issues on the Internet have been gaining more and more importance in the workplace. On the one hand employees make use of the company’s infrastructure for network access, but these have come up in many cases forced to limit (not the monitor) access to certain content.
According to the recommendation of the Council of Europe, the Portuguese workers can now rely on a set of rules to defend themselves in court.
The companies are not allowed to watch over social networks, like Facebook or Twitter, and accessing emails of its employees. As revealed by the Daily News access to emails of workers by the employer is strictly prohibited and whenever a worker ceases the employment relationship, the electronic address should be immediately terminated by the company, which you can only access the unread emails with the permission and presence of the target.
Employers are also, from now prohibited to question the employee for the content of messages posted on social and can not put surveillance cameras networks in the workplace in order to monitor employees, writes DN.
In an interview with Renaissance , Julio Gomes, judge of the Supreme Court and expert in labor law, believes that this makes sense, but there must be limits. “An absolute prohibition of a worker be fired regardless of the content of the statements you make in Facebook seems to me strange,” begins by telling the judge, noting that “one thing is to ensure that the worker, as a citizen, talk their freedom expression “, but a contract implies that the employer must, but also be respected.
There is a duty to act fairly, so he must refrain from comments that you know will be detrimental to the image company and worse, conduct that is slanderous and defamatory in relation to his employer, “explains Julio Gomes.
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