You can’t fire me, I’m drunk!
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A court in Peru has ruled that workers cannot be fired for being drunk on the job, Reuters reported. Pablo Cayo was sacked for being intoxicated while on duty as a janitor for the municipality of Chorrillos, but the court ruled that he must now be reinstated. The court said that the dismissal was excessive because even though Cayo was drunk, he did not offend or hurt anybody,
Celso Becerra, the Administrative Chief of Chorrillos, a suburb of Lima, denounced the ruling.
“We’ve fired four workers for showing up drunk, and two of them were drivers,” he said. “How can we allow a drunk to work who might run somebody over?”
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