Monday, March 9, 2009

Cost To Recover Old Lampshade

Lavoro. Le Linee Guida del Garante per Posta Elettronica e Internet


The public and private employers can not check e-mail and surfing the Internet for employees, except in exceptional cases. It is for the employer to define how to use these tools but taking into account the rights of workers and discipline in the field of labor relations.



The Guarantor privacy, with a general measure to be published in "Official Gazette", provides concrete guidelines regarding the use of computers in the workplace. "The issue is particularly sensitive - says Mr Mauro Paissan - because the analysis of websites visited can be drawn including sensitive information about employees and e-mail content can have a private character. Necessary to prevent arbitrary use of IT tools and business of violating the privacy of workers. "



The Authority requires first of all employers to inform clearly and in detail about how employees use the Internet and e-mail and the possibility that controls are in place. The Guarantor also prohibits reading and systematic recording of the e-mail as well as the systematic monitoring of web pages visited by employees, because This achieves a remote control of work prohibited by the Workers' Statute.


It also indicated a number of organizational and technological measures to prevent the possibility, provided only in limited circumstances, analysis of the content of Internet browsing and opening some e-mail messages containing data needed company.


The measure recommends the adoption by businesses of a disciplinary procedure, called also involving the unions, which are clearly set out the rules for Internet use and e-mail.


The employer is also required to adopt any measure that can prevent the risk of misuse, so as to reduce after-care workers.



As for the Internet should be for example:

sites previously identified or not considered related to work performance;

use filters to prevent certain transactions, such as access to sites placed in a sort of blacklist or downloading music files or media.


Regarding the e-mail, should the company:
makes available also addresses shared by several employees (info@ente.it; urp@ente.it; ufficioreclami@ente.it), making clear the nature of private correspondence;
evaluate the possibility of assigning the worker to another address (as well as work), for personal use;
including, in the absence of the worker, auto-reply message with the coordinates of other workers reach,
enables the employee to delegate to another employee (trust) to check the content of the messages addressed to him and to forward those deemed relevant to the holder for office, that in case of unexpected or prolonged absence of the worker and pressing requirements work-related.



If these preventive measures were not sufficient to prevent abnormal behavior, any control by the employer must be made gradually. In the first instance you should carry out audits of the department, office, workgroup, in order to identify the area to retrieve the observance of the rules. Only later, repeating the anomaly, we could go to check on an individual basis.



The Guarantor has finally prompted special measures of protection in those situations where work must be respected professional privilege granted to some categories, such as journalists.

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