Posted on 09/10/2019 7:23:42 AM PDT by DFG
A married man who died of a heart attack after having sex on a business trip in France was ruled to have been the victim of a workplace accident — making his company financially responsible, according to reports.
Engineer Xavier X was found dead in his hotel room in Meung-sur-Loire shortly after having sex with a local woman he’d just met, according to the Times of London.
Lawyers for his bosses at the Parisian railroad construction company TSO insisted he was not performing duties when he had the heart attack — blaming the “adulterous sex act that he had had with a complete stranger,” according to the report.
But appeals court judges ruled that an employee on assignment “is entitled to their employer’s protection for the duration of their mission … whether or not the accident takes place as part of a professional activity or as an act of normal life,” the report said.
They held up a 2016 lower court ruling in the case that stated, “A sexual encounter is an act of normal life like taking a shower or eating a meal,” according to the Times.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“I wouldn’t consider extramarital sex a “normal” activity...”
Well, keep in mind, this is France.
Some are worthwhile, but this one doesn’t sound good enough to watch through the scrambled channel.
“...I don’t think these judges are really thinking this through ...”
Probably all guilty as hell themselves.
This is some kind of joke right?
C’est trés francais, non?
But seriously, even though sex affairs are officially considered part of business in France, I must say that some countries, like the one I worked in Human Resources for, have their citizens use private insurance for all health issues except accidents, and the employer covers all accidents regardless of cause. We had a hockey player in the accounting dept and we covered without question every injury. Or every ski accident. Etc. It gets rid of the workman’s comp cottage industry and all the fraud involved. I liked the system.
Think this through: who is the beneficiary of the insurance?
Answer: the wife who the dude cheated on.
Hence this bizarre ruling. They were taking care of the wronged wife.
It is France, and “Cherchez la femme,” after all.
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*The Frogs are good lovers and even more proficient cheese eating surrender monkeys.
Bad ruling.
La loi est un âne !
You are correct.
In that case, I still think it’s a bad ruling but I do see that point and agree with their motives, if that’s what it was.
Perhaps if he needed a company forklift to put him in the proper position....?
Other than that I’d say ‘way to go Pierre’ or Ex-zavior or whatever. Here we say ‘died with his boots on’. In France, we’ll no boots nor much anything else and then your cuckold wife gets to sue the company. Pretty cool there, Europe.
>>He went Full “Nelson Rockefeller”<<
Was he hurriedly dressed, with his shoes on the wrong feet, and propped up in a chair before the police were called?
The job we all high school students used to say they wanted——mattress tester.
Thus he was at his workplace.
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Nice Work If you Can Get It (George Gershwin, 1937)
Holding hands at midnight
‘Neath a starry sky
Nice work if you can get it
And you can get it if you try
Strolling with the one girl
Sighing sigh after sigh
Nice work if you can get it
And you can get it if you try
correction-— job we all as high school students....
But he was in Europe not America. Things are “different” there.
Wow Pompeii 79 ad. 2 eruptions on the same day. When someone says evacuate, but you thought they said ejaculate.....
He just subscribe to the philosophy it takes 3 to make a French marriage.
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