VietNamNet Bridge - Engineer Le Van Tach told VietNamNet that he has lodged complaints against Toyota Vietnam, for violating mail privacy and right of antecedents to the People’s Court of Phuc Yen town, Vinh Phuc province, where Toyota Vietnam’s factory is based.
The engineer has also lodged another complaint on a labor dispute against Toyota Vietnam.

In addition, Tach has petitioned the police bureau of Phuc Yen town to prosecute the general director of Toyota Vietnam and some of his inferiors for taking abuse of their position to violate his mail privacy.

Tach has alleged that TMV took such unfair action against him just because he had exposed technical faults in its cars in April.

According to Tach, Toyota Vietnam broke Vietnamese labor laws when it transferred him to a lower-paid job, just because Tach had sent petitions to the firm’s general director three times. Tach asked the court to force Toyota Vietnam to annul the above decision.

“Previously they suspended me from my job for three months with half pay and they could not find out any fault from me. Now they plead my letters sent to the general director to change my job. This is improper and illegal,” Tach said.

The engineer said that Toyota Vietnam checked his mail box at prtachlv@toyotavn.com.vn and read his personal emails without his permission. This act was admitted by Toyota Vietnam in a minutes dated August 24, 2011. Tach said the above act is the violation of his privacy, stipulated by Article 38, the Civil Code.

He also accused Toyota Vietnam’s general director of slander. According to Tach, the general director spread unverified information about Tach’s personal life, such as he wrote tens of love letters for women and having extramarital relations since 2009.

Tach said that such information has stirred up serious misunderstandings and conflicts in his family, and the relationships between him and his wife may break up.

“They said that I wrote tens of love letters to other women. I’m very surprised and have asked them to show them to me, but they did not. It is very difficult to understand,” Tach told VietNamNet.

“They slandered me to have intention to close the company, which has made my colleagues to be afraid in talking with me,” he added.

In his petition, Tach asked the People’s Court of Phuc Yen to force Toyota Vietnam to end its violation of right of antecedents against him, reject false information and offer an apology to him publicly.

Toyota Vietnam has said that the email address given to Tach by the company is its asset and it has the right of control over it, and that employees are not allowed to use their company e-mail accounts for personal purposes.

Under the company’s confidentiality policy, “the employer has the right to manage and use its internal email addresses,” Tran Quoc Hung, head of the planning and products department of Toyota Vietnam, said to the press.

Gia Van