Police Blotter: Fired worker blames porn on malware

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You still have to be careful

Even if you can fire for any reason making up a reason like this can damage a person reputation and that is something you can sue for. I don't think this guy is suing to get his job back, he's suing because they accused him of surfing porn with no proof what so ever. Even if a link in their favorites is for porn site that is not proof they went to said porn site while a work. There are tons of plausible reasons for that link being there. One I can think of is that he could have imported his favorites from home. Doing this get some work related links but along with the links was porn site. He could very never ever go to that site, the favorites reveal nothing.

Now had they checked the cache and found something, that would be different. Had they saw connection via proxy server from his user account again they had grounds. All link in the favorites would make me do is look for actual evidence.

In the end I think the employer here did harm to the employee by damaging his reputation. How do you get another job when your previous employer is possibly spreading lies about you surfing porn on the job? So they should have to pay for lost wages due the effects of said lies.

My guess why this occurred is they tried to go for too much money and didn't argue the actual facts of the case. The judge probably had no choice but to through this out.

Posted by: voska   Posted on: 10/03/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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