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Exercised over its workers. To begin with, business control over workers is allowed, but with certain requirements that must be met. Events prior to the Strasbourg judgment The Strasbourg Court published a few months ago the case of a Romanian citizen, who in 2007 was fired from his company after sending personal emails through the company account. The worker had been working for three years in a company.
Which he had been forced to create a messaging account with the aim of solving and responding to customer concerns. The management of the company informed the worker that his messages had been reviewed and did moible number data not correspond to the professional activity when detecting that the employee was talking with his partner and family about different issues unrelated to the work he had in the company. After 10 years, Strasbourg has made public the sentence in which it protects.

The employee because it considers that the company has violated respect for personal, private and family life, ruling that companies cannot control their employees' emails without notifying them. Furthermore, the Court considers that the Romanian courts violated Article 8 of Human Rights when they endorsed the dismissal of the worker. The ruling also states that the company acted badly: why? Because, the order alleges, the corporation disregarded the employee's right to privacy.
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