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June 21st 1999 Published By: Nua Limited Volume 4 No. 24
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BBC Online Network:UK Employee Sacked for Surfing at Work
In Britain, an industrial tribunal has found that an employee was fairly
dismissed for surfing the Net on her employer's time. The ruling was
made on the grounds of misconduct.
The employee was dismissed after her employer, who had been monitoring
her use of the Net, found that she had conducted over 150 personal
online searches, and had booked a holiday online, all on company time.
The defence in the case, however, was not that the woman concerned had
not surfed the Net but rather that it was used as an excuse to dismiss
her because she was pregnant. The employee maintained that she surfed
the Web only at lunchtime and that the online research for her holiday
took just 111 minutes over 4 days.
While the ruling was made in a tribunal and therefore does not establish
a legal precedent, the case is the first of its kind in Britain and it
is likely to have implications for the estimated 6 million people that
have Net access at work. UK employers' organisations have advised
companies to clearly set out their Net usage policy.
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_370000/370462.stm>
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