Peru Court Rules Being Drunk on the Job Isn’t Grounds For Dismissal
From the archive: published Jan 15, 2009, 17 years ago. Details may have changed since.
Peru’s top court has ruled that being drunk at work isn’t grounds for dismissal.
The court ordered that Pablo Cayo be given his job back as a janitor for the municipality of Chorrillos, which fired him for being intoxicated at work. One Justice that that the firing was excessive because even though Cayo was drunk, he did not offend or hurt anybody.
According to Reuters, the Local Government isn’t happy: “We’ve fired four workers for showing up drunk, and two of them were drivers,” said a spokesman “How can we allow a drunk to work who might run somebody over?”
The court said it would not revise its decision.