If a person is fired from a job for personal emails sent to a person that works for another company (about un job related topics) can the pe...

Question

If a person is fired from a job for personal emails sent to a person that works for another company (about un job related topics) can the persons company (that was fired) contact the other company and tell them about their employees involvement?

Answer

Of course it can. There is nothing confidential or legally protected about the correspondence you speak of.