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Erfurt (dpa) - In the event of claims for information from their employer, employees must precisely name the documents they want to receive.
The Federal Labor Court referred to this on Tuesday when hearing a lawsuit from Lower Saxony on emails.
In the case of a business lawyer, the question was whether the employee could request a copy of all of his business email correspondence after his termination.
The plaintiff was concerned not only with copies of the emails that he had written or received himself, but also with those in which he was mentioned personally.
The legal basis for the case that revolved around the disclosure of personal data by the employer is the General Data Protection Regulation.
The general demand for e-mail copies to be handed over was "not sufficiently determined," declared the federal labor judges.
They rejected the plaintiff's appeal against a decision by the regional labor court (2 AZR 342/20).
"If the defendant were convicted of providing a copy of the plaintiff's e-mails and of e-mails that mention him by name, it would remain unclear which e-mails the defendant would have to leave copies of," said the highest German labor judge.
According to their own statements, they could leave it open as to whether the right to have a copy of personal data also includes that of e-mails.
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The labor court had dismissed the business lawyer’s action, the Lower Saxony regional labor court only granted him in part.
The General Data Protection Regulation regulates how companies, authorities or associations must handle personal data.
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