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By Rudner Law, Employment / HR Law & Mediation | 6 Minutes Read August 7, 2015

Can an organization monitor or search the personal emails sent by its employees?

It is a question that employment lawyers are asked all the time: can an organization monitor or search the personal emails sent by its employees? The answer, as is often the case, is that it depends. In this context, the issue is the expectation of privacy that the employee reasonably has.

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