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Supreme Court decision on access to employees' email for investigation purposes

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • Italy
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  • May 2 2012

The Italian workers' statute forbids employers from remotely controlling its employees' activities unless the devices through which the control is performed are agreed with the works council or authorised by the local body of the Labour Ministry

Supreme Court rules on employee's malicious damage to IT systems

  • Stanchi Studio Legale
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  • Italy
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  • March 21 2012

The Supreme Court recently ruled on the case of an employee who deleted a large quantity of data from the hard disk of his employer's computer and removed the back-up CD-ROMs

Recent developments for the fourth quarter 2011

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Canada, China, Denmark, European Union, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA
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  • March 15 2012

The end of the year and beginning of a new year is always a busy time for us, as it is for most of our clients

Supreme Court rules on monitoring workplace emails

  • Stanchi Studio Legale
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  • Italy
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  • March 14 2012

The case of a bank clerk who was terminated on the basis of information uncovered through email monitoring has clarified some of the issues surrounding the potential conflict between an employer's right to supervise and an employee's right of privacy

Ex post defensive monitoring of email and protection of employer's assets

  • Portolano Cavallo Studio Legale
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  • Italy
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  • March 7 2012

As described in our previous article (“Italy: Remote monitoring and defensive monitoring of employees in the internet age”, published in October 2010), Article 4 of Law 3001970 known as the Statute of Workers includes provisions on systems for monitoring employees

Recent Supreme Court decision about video-recording devices in the workplace

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • Italy
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  • July 6 2010

The Italian Supreme Court has recently issued a decision on the use of information collected using video-recording devices in the workplace against employees