This month, a divided National Labor Relations Board held in Purple Communications, Inc. that employees have the right to use their employer-provided business email accounts for non-work purposes during non-work hours. In doing so, the Board reversed a 2007 precedent equating email with any other employer-owned property—seeing email as not much more than a real-life

Last month, a divided National Labor Relations Board held in Purple Communications, Inc. that employees have the right to use their employer-provided business email accounts for non-work purposes during non-work hours. In doing so, the Board reversed a 2007 precedent equating email with any other employer-owned property – seeing email as not much more than