Staff can be fired for personal messages at work following EU ruling

Workers can be fired for sending personal messages from work, if they have been banned from doing so by their employers in advance.

The ruling from the European Court of Human Rights found nothing wrong with the employer of a 27-year-old Romanian checking his Yahoo messages.

They found 45 pages of personal details he sent to his fiancée and his brother over just eight days, including about his health and sex life.