>Some of the e-mails were correspondence with the TU rep which were not apparent to be of
> a personal nature and anyway, the Council has an e-mail policy which states
> that it is not to be used for personal e-mails. I am of the view that he
> should have written outwith work and not used the e-mail system which as we
> all know is not secure.
>
Assuming your authority recognises the union or unions, communicating with reasonable confidentiality by use of the employer's e-mail, telephone etc probably ought to come under reasonable facilities. The employer could refuse such a facility to a recognised union if there were reasonable alternatives - e.g. the worker and the rep could both go to a Union office on- or off-site in working time to have a meeting. But why make life difficult for the employer?!
Printing e-mails might well be in breach of collective agreements either implicitly or explicitly.
Paul
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