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The trade union Unionen is suing a company that fired an employee because she sent emails from her work account to her private email account, reports the trade magazine Kollega.
The woman, who had worked at the company for 15 years and was on sick leave when the incident occurred, was dismissed with reference to the fact that she had violated the company’s guidelines regarding the handling of work emails and thus could damage the company with her actions.
The employer is required to pay a total of SEK 150,000 in damages and compensation.
– In this case, we believe that it was part of her duties to send the emails and they have not led to any damage to the company, says David Hellman, federal lawyer at Unionen, to Kollega.
Despite the sick leave, the woman had received a work order to provide the manager with information, which required her to log into the work account.
The union believes that the woman was subjected to pressure and that the mistake cannot therefore be assessed in the same way as if she had not been on sick leave.