Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest

Re:Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest by wildfire on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @05:10PM (#21643255)

Do you know of any court case testing this?

My contract with a German company, specifically had clauses saying that anything on their systems is something that can inspect and/or look at.

We aren't talking a small company here, but one with multiple large sites; which means multiple large workers councils ( basically a union for a specific company location ).

Remember hiring in Germany has to be approved by a Worker's Council and the company has to pay for the council to receive independent legal advice as well.

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Re:Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest by jashmatthews on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @06:23PM (#21643769)

The one I know is this: http://juris.bundesarbeitsgericht.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/...

From the GDPR training I did for working as a software engineer in DE, this is all OK as long as its legitimately required for compliance, explicitly disclosed to the full requirements of BDSG/GDPR and not used for anything other than the stated reasons.

This is a huge contrast to the US where it would likely be completely legal to look at this kind of monitoring and then fire someone under at-will employment law for reading too much news.ycombinator.

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