In the Labor Court of Minas Gerais, in a second instance decision, printouts of messages exchanged by employees on a corporate social network and evidence constituted by means of telephone recordings were recognized as illicit evidence, since the private and confidential nature of the conversations and the need for judicial authorization for recording were recognized.
The case concerns defamation between two employees of the company, which led to the dismissal of the employee who committed the defamation, but the legal proceedings established the lack of proof of a causal link between the dismissal and the alleged defamation.
