Disability Discrimination USA Stylee….
by Philip
A worker for IBM in the USA is suing his employer for the US equivalent of disability discrimination. The employee was fired for using his pc at work for going in to sex chat rooms ( whatever they are!) and accessing porn as well. Unsurprisingly he was sacked. The employee is now claiming that as he was vet in the Vietnam war and the first Gulf war, those experiences left him with post traumatic stress disorder, the pain of which was relieved by visiting the sites above. I particularly enjoyed the legal creativity of the pleadings in particular at paragraph 18 where the employee’s lawyers claim that chatting in a sex chat room on a pc is “roughly analagous to a telephone company employee chatting to a pedestrian while mending telephone lines.” Being America it’s a three million dollar plus law suit, so we will keep you posted as to the result. PJH Law will be looking to open an American office if he wins. For those who are interested the pleadings are here. When you get towards the end, the lawyers suggest that it might be age discrimination, if it’s not disability discrimination, just in case.
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