Legitimate dismissal of employee who offends colleagues and employer via e-mail| Studio Legale Menichetti

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The Court of Appeal, with sentence no. 26682 of 2016, has established that the employee's conduct constitutes a serious denial of employment relationship trust. The employee, which in numerous emails sent from the company account, used vulgar statements regarding the legal representative and other collaborators, with accusations of incompetence and impropriety with the use of rude expressions.

The Court, furthermore, in conformance with other previous ruling, has reaffirmed that the control over the employee's e-mail is legitimate if, in the presence of an anomaly registered by the IT system administrator, it is aimed at preventing the fulfilment of harmful behaviours of assets substantially unrelated to the compliance of work obligations (such as damaging the image of the company and the due protection of dignity of other employees. (AL)

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