E-MAIL AND YOUR EMPLOYEES
If your employees have agreed that you can monitor their emails, you can legally dismiss them for sending and receiving email that do not relate to work. You need their specific agreement, preferably under a clause in the statement of contract of employment that give you the right to monitor all messages created, sent, received and stored on your systems, or a clause stating they are not the employees' private property and there should be no expectation of privacy.Your right to monitor employees' emails may conflict with the Data Protection Act 1998, and possibly also with the implied contractual relationship of mutual confidence and trust between employer and employee, and employee' right to privacy under the Human Right Act 1998.
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