Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Are Worktime Visits to Sex-Related Chat Rooms Protected by the ADA?
One employee seems to think so. David Fish at Litigation Blog reports that an IBM employee, fired after he was caught red-handed in a sexually explicit chat room, argued that he suffers from post traumatic stress disorder (from Vietnam) and that he self-medicates in Internet chat rooms. IBM has moved for summary judgment.
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/2006/12/are_worktime_vi.html