Employers' bodies are more optimistic about the workability of the government's workplace e-mail privacy code, but deep misgivings remain. The Privacy at Work conference hosted by the information commissioner last week brought employers and employee representatives together in a bid to thrash out what should go in the final code, which specifies the permitted level of monitoring for staff e-mails and the internet use.
Susannah Haan, legal adviser at the Confederation of British Industry, said, "The information commissioner said they hadn't appreciated all the risks to employers such as defamation and the inadvertent formation of contracts if workers use company e-mails and it is attributed to the company. We are pleased they have acknowledged that but we will have to see how far the code will shift."
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