In an unprecedented ruling, Italy’s highest court of appeal the Supreme Court of Cassation has just ruled in favor of the employer of a former employee who had claimed ‘entrapment’ due to monitoring carried out on Facebook. The judges deemed that this type of control is legal when the employer suspects an employee of behavior that is putting the smooth operations and safety of the business at risk.
“Covert controls, in so far as they are carried out to check on various offenses” are authorized once they remain “respectful of the freedom and dignity of the employee” and are not “excessively intrusive”. This is how Italy’s highest court has ruled for the first time in favor of employee surveillance via a social network. The employee in question had been made redundant in 2010 by a printing company in the central Abruzzo region of the country. The employee challenged the redundancy in...
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