Employee Rights - Need Legal advice!?

Can you be fired if your boss who uses spy software finds out that you applied for a job from home?





He saw my personal email, he only saw the subject line.





Is it legal to do this? To act upon what he saw in my personal email ?Employee Rights - Need Legal advice!?
Your employer has no right to hack into your home computer. If anyone is going to be fired, it will be him. You have grounds for a lawsuit.Employee Rights - Need Legal advice!?
No i do not think so. i think you should check out the laws in your state
If you applied for a job from home, on your personal computer, how does your boss know? However, if you were checking the job wedsite from work or had emails about it sent to your work computer, your boss has access to monitor it. Even if it's something like a yahoo email, anything that comes or goes from your work computer is subject to monitoring. I'm sure you've been told that work computers are not for personal use, right?


On the other hand, if you think your boss is hacking into your home computer, installed spyware %26amp; is monitoring it, disconnect your computer %26amp; have it looked at by a computer professional. If there's something on it that you didn't put there, you should call HR, the police %26amp; a good lawyer (not necessarily in that order).


Either way, unless you have a contract with your company, you can be fired for any reason at all.
Some employers do reserve the right to monitor your communications, depending on what your position entails. If he installed spy software on your home computer somehow, that sounds illegal, but you want to make sure it isn't something you agreed to in a contract, or that you didn't check your personal e-mail at work and IT saw the subject line, or that it's not a company computer that you were using at home (even if you had permission).





In many states though, seeking a new position may be grounds for dismissal, and it is perfectly legal for a company to monitor communications on their bandwidth or property.
No,





but if you're an ';at will'; employee, they don't need a reason to fire you.
Your case sounds close, he might win or you might win. Get a lawyer, unfortunately there are too many unknowns for Yahoo Answers to be very helpful in this situation.