A U.S.-based employer faced legal consequences after it terminated a remote employee in the Netherlands who refused to keep his camera on for the whole nine-hour workday. The Dutch Court held that the dismissal of the...more
Some of you might recall the case of Mr Barbulescu v Romania in 2016, which involved an employee (Mr Barbulescu), who sent private emails through his personal Yahoo account from an office computer. Some messages were innocent...more
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held in Barbulescu v Romania (Application no. 61496/08) last week that there was a breach of the right to privacy where an employer searched the contents of an...more