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The European Court of Human Rights has on Tuesday decided in a landmark privacy case that Employers must ensure that employees are aware well in advance that communications through their work emails are being monitored by management.

According to reports from Reuters, "In a judgment in the case of a man fired 10 years ago for using a work messaging account to communicate with his family, the judges found that Romanian courts failed to protect Bogdan Barbulescu's private correspondence because his company had not given prior notice that it was monitoring his communications.

"The company had presented him with printouts of his private messages to his brother and fiancée on Yahoo Messenger as evidence of his breach of a company ban on such personal use."

The European Court in Strassbourg further ruled after a 11-6 majority that Romanian judges who backed the employer had failed to protect Barbulescu's right to private life and correspondence which is a fundamental EU right.