Employment law.

deco581

An employer has accessed an employees private Facebook page and downloaded the transcripts. The employer is now using these transcripts in diciplinary proceedings against the employee. Can the employer do this?

Reloc8

Yes.

Unless you're saying it was 'hacked'. And even then it might be ok.

If it was accessed by someone given permission to do so by way of friend status or whatever you kids are calling it these days there is no issue.

Moreover, if it was procured by examination of computers in the workplace belonging to the employer there is equally no difficulty irrespective of whether it was accessed with permission or not.

deco581

Thanks, I thought that was the case. I believe that there are no issues regarding an employees computer and the transcripts were restricted to so called "friends". I am amazed that there are no privacy issues involved.

Reloc8

No problem.

There can be no privacy issues where a person chooses to give access to material to another person.

For what its worth, I'm amazed that a person would put information which is clearly damaging to some extent at least to their employment on the internet and then let people look at it.

Jo King

It is incredible the number of people who ring in sick to work and then post photos of the party they were at, while absent from work, on social networking sites.