Posted on 04/24/2005 10:14:12 AM PDT by GeekDejure
Norway's Supreme Court supported decisions refusing Conoco Phillips the right to fire two workers who surfed the Internet for pornographic images on company time.
The two workers on the Ekofisk field lost their jobs after being caught peeping at porn on the job in the summer of 2002. The pair took their case to court and won at both the municipal and appeals level, NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting) reports.
Conoco Phillips appealed the decisions to the Supreme Court in order to have a clarification of what employees can do on company time and what employers can do to enforce violations of company policy.
The Supreme Court has ruled that the firings were not justified and have awarded the two NOK 250,000 (USD 40,000) each in compensation.
Hmmmm... I suppose the USSC shall cite this case soon.
Don't let the ACLU hear about this.
Don't let the ACLU hear about this.
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Yes, and maybe even more important, don't let the liberals on our Supreme Court hear about it!!! They will be citing Norway's laws as a basis for THEIR AMERICAN DECISIONS!!!!
Hopefully the US Supreme Court will cite this soon. Get rid of that pesky freedom of association thing. Who needs that? Politicians and judges are much better equipped and prepared to tell us who to associate with in any capacity than we are. I can't wait till they start arranging our marriages and deciding when we should have children.
Hasn't SCOTUS gone on record for something just as reprehensible? Virtual kiddie porn? Didn't they rule in favor of it?
I see Norway's GNP going way down as a result of people going to work to get paid to look at porn all day long.
Virtual kiddie porn? Didn't they rule in favor of it?
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In favor of KIDDIE PORN? Are you possibly confusing the right to free usage of the internet (1st amendment rights) with the legality of kiddie porn? Got a site or an article on this???
(1) what can employees do on company time? ANSWER ... Anything they want to.
(2) What can employers do to enforce violations of company policy? ANSWER ... Nothing.
Thanks for the CNN article. It was a first amendment issue, which they used as the basis for their decision (whether we like kiddie-porn or not)...and since it was a Constitutional issue, it did receive conservative support.
It was virtual kid porn and yes, best I remember, the SC said it was ok.
See, they messed up by trying to fire them - they need to clearly list the job duties and then refuse to pay them for any time spent doing other than official job duties. A few 39 cent paychecks ought to straighten things out.
BINGO!!
***Hmmmm... I suppose the USSC shall cite this case soon.***
Ruth Bader Ginsberg has just been waiting for a European court to make this decision. We're "evolving," you know. And we should throw out our Consitution and do what Europe does. /s
Perhaps but other things will be "on the rise".
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