Question For People That Work In Human Resources Department

Can't answer what any one HR department might or might not do. Nor have I worked in HR.

Yet this is what one particular company did with cellphones.

Being a Rover that traveled from site to site we were required to use cellphones. Now at first email wasn't required. That did happen later through a company sub domain of Gmail. Yes we were required to set that up ourselves.

Thing was that the cellphone always belonged to the company. Even though the email account was set up by us employees.

Now if you were not able to operate this company cellphone, you simply were not given the position that required to use that company cellphone.

The position held the requirement.
They can legally do this, because that was the nature of the job.

In my opinion it is not fair, and I hated emails when I was working, that was the last thing I thought about checking in the Army was what emails have I got to respond too. Especially when I entered the Army in 1984 and computers were only good for record keeping and hardly anyone knew how to use them

It was still write it up and have the clerk type it and send it up the chain of command. Orders came down the chain the same when then too or were given face to face!