Accessing a leavers mailbox

Domo · 27 Jul 2021 at 21:56

Is there any guidance or regulatory obligation an employer should be aware of? In this instance, an employee has left an organisation but deleted all their mailbox contents on the last day, because of the large amount of personal email included. Now managers are asking for access because the mailbox would have contained important emails. But I don't think it's that straight forward. Is it?

Does GDPR come into play? What rights does an employer have? It is possible to retrieve the deleted emails, but should they?

Domo · 28 Jul 2021 at 09:43

I'm curious about the legal aspects with regards to users deleting their emails before leaving an organisation.
The emails are retrievable, but does that mean an employer can act on it without consent from the ex staff member? Particularly in the absence of any such policy?

Domo · 28 Jul 2021 at 23:24

vanandjuanunited said:
Are you going to keep asking this until you get an answer you are happy with

I couldn't find the first post I created

Domo · 28 Jul 2021 at 23:24

Feek said:
Two threads for the same thing, I've merged them.

Thanks.