A Swiss woman has lost her job because she used
Facebook when she was off work sick.
Insurance company Nationale Suisse said the woman had previously
told he employer that she had a migraine and had to lie in a dark
room.
The company claimed another employee noticed, by chance, she had
been using Facebook while off. She was sacked. "This abuse of
trust, rather than the activity on Facebook, led to the ending of
the work contract," said Nationale Suisse.
"The employee was sick for a long time and we had a programme to
help her," said a spokeswoman.
The woman has claimed that her employer was spying on her and
actually created an account so it could become one of her friends
and monitor her activity. She told the 20 Minuten she had been
surfing Facebook in bed on her iPhone.
Nationale Suisse rejected the accusation of spying and said the
employee's Facebook activity had been stumbled across by a
colleague in November.