<p>Employees cannot be sacked for watching porn on the job provided they do so during their lunch break, Italy's supreme court ruled, rejecting an appeal from car giant Fiat against a worker's reinstatement.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"The evidence was insufficient to prove that the employee viewed porn during his working hours," the Court Cassation said in its ruling on Wednesday.<br /><br />The court threw out claims by Fiat that the man's alleged porn habit had "breached his relationship of trust with his employer" and was "incompatible" with his job.<br /><br />The worker had argued that his porn viewing was limited to merely "catching a glimpse" of a film during his lunch break.<br /><br />Fiat had fired the man from its Termini Imerese plant near Palermo in Sicily after a computer and three porn DVDs were found in his locker.<br /><br />A court in Termini Imerese ruled against the man in 2010 but the verdict was overturned by Palermo's court of appeal, whose ruling was upheld by the Court of Cassation.<br /><br /></p>
<p>Employees cannot be sacked for watching porn on the job provided they do so during their lunch break, Italy's supreme court ruled, rejecting an appeal from car giant Fiat against a worker's reinstatement.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"The evidence was insufficient to prove that the employee viewed porn during his working hours," the Court Cassation said in its ruling on Wednesday.<br /><br />The court threw out claims by Fiat that the man's alleged porn habit had "breached his relationship of trust with his employer" and was "incompatible" with his job.<br /><br />The worker had argued that his porn viewing was limited to merely "catching a glimpse" of a film during his lunch break.<br /><br />Fiat had fired the man from its Termini Imerese plant near Palermo in Sicily after a computer and three porn DVDs were found in his locker.<br /><br />A court in Termini Imerese ruled against the man in 2010 but the verdict was overturned by Palermo's court of appeal, whose ruling was upheld by the Court of Cassation.<br /><br /></p>