[NC] Newz Crew Digital Media Newz Flash -- Judge: Web-Surfing Worker Can't Be Fired
Saying surfing the web is equivalent to reading a newspaper or talking on the phone, an administrative law judge has suggested that only a reprimand is appropriate as punishment for a city worker accused of failing to heed warnings to stay off the Internet.
An administrative Law Judge reached this decision in the case of Toquir Choudhri, a 14-year veteran of the Department of Education who had been accused of ignoring supervisors who told him to stop browsing the Internet at work.
The judge wrote, "It should be observed that the Internet has become the modern equivalent of a telephone or a daily newspaper, providing a combination of communication and information that most employees use as frequently in their personal lives as for their work."
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Do you think that surfing the web is equivalent to making a phone call or reading the paper at work? Should employers be concerned with how their employees use the internet at work?
