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Dechert LLP

Case law update – France / Second semester of 2019

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This newsletter summarises four significant judicial decisions over recent months.   1. The purpose of a probation period is for the employee’s skills to be assessed. Therefore an employee’s absence would extend the...more

Proskauer - Minding Your Business

First Department Finds Work-Product Protection Not Waived by Storage of Documents on Company Laptop

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On June 6, 2017, the First Department had an opportunity to apply—and reaffirm—last month’s decision in Peerenboom v. Marvel Entm’t, LLC, where the Court held that use of a company email system for personal purposes “does...more

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Rules on Monitoring an Employee’s Private Internet Use at Work: a new ECHR decision

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In a decision rendered on January 12, 2016, the European Court of Human Rights (“ECHR”) held that the dismissal of an employee for having used his professional email account for personal purposes during working hours did not...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Inappropriate E-mail Use by Employees Can Constitute Cause for Dismissal

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Increased usage and reliance on the Internet creates new challenges for both employees and an employer’s human resources department. In certain circumstances, employees can be fired for engaging in inappropriate Internet use...more

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