Email Abuse Leads to Staff Dismissals in UK and Ireland

By Anna Kelpie

July 3, 2006

London & Dublin, July 2006 - It hit the headlines last Thursday in the UK with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) in Swansea sacking 14 employees after finding that its networks were running slow from emails being sent with pornographic attachments.

Then on Friday, it was reported that the Dublin office of investment bankers Merrill Lynch had dismissed 13 staff after conducting an enquiry into the sending of pornographic emails.

If your organisation had such an incident, could you be certain that your policies and processes would support your management team, with the evitable scrutiny surrounding the follow-on employment tribunal proceedings?

MetaCompliance Policy Communicator can assist your organisation by systematically and robustly communicating company and compliance policies electronically.  The software can help create a culture of awareness and can provide an audit trail of employee agreement to your policies.

Contact me to organise a no-obligation online demonstration of this solution at: akelpie@eu-baronscourt.com.

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