The Court of Cassation, with ruling no. 28365 of October 27, 2025, established that Article 4 of the Workers' Statute allows the employer, in the presence of an adequate company policy, to monitor the company PC used by the employee for work purposes.
A sales employee was fired after the employer, following an alert, initiated a thorough review of the employee's company account, including communications prior to the report.
Following a dispute over 125 emails forwarded to competing companies containing confidential company data, the employee was fired.
The Court of Venice, with a ruling upheld by the Court of Appeal, dismissed the appeal.
The Court of Cassation, with ruling no. 28365 of October 27, 2025, rejected the employee's appeal, upholding the Court of Appeal's ruling, specifically that Article 4 of Law No. 300 of May 20, 1970, allows the company, in the event of suspicion of wrongdoing by an employee, to inspect the company PC used to perform the work, provided that the employee in question has been adequately informed of the application of contractual provisions regarding disciplinary measures in the event of an inspection and of the applicable disciplinary consequences.
Attorney Nicoletta Di Lolli