My old employer is keeping my email account open to gather information. Can he use my name to his benefit?
I stopped providing services as a consultant to a tax firm. During my tenure of my services I had assumed an email account using the first letter of my first name and complete last name @ the company name. I suspect the old employer has removed the auto-response and it using it to collect sales leads. Is this legal? If so, for how long? Thank you for your help.
The email address is considered to be company property, so yes, he can do that.
Illegal, I am not sure but unethical you bet. I would check with a lawyer?
ask an employement lawyer
it is not legal, and i do not understand why you do not close the account yourself?? anyway tell him you want that account close or will see him in court and maybe that will scare him a bit…but if you can close the account do it
Well, looking at it logically it depends. If it was an email address paid for by the company then they own it and can therefore do what they want with it including responding to people who contact you. What they can’t do is pretend to be you or pretend that you’re still at the company.
Seems to me that you’d be within your rights to notify anyone who is receiving these emails from your account that you no longter work at that company.