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<\/div>\nThe company said it fired the worker for “refusal to work” and “insubordination,”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
A Dutch court has ordered a US company to compensate a sacked employee for $72,700 after the employee was fired for turning the webcam off while working from home, according to a report in Fortune magazine<\/em>. Chetu, a Florida-based telemarketing company, sacked the employee for refusing to be watched “for nine hours per day” by a program that required sharing of the screens and streaming of his webcam.<\/p>\n According to the news report, in a decision against a US software corporation, a Dutch court concluded that “requiring remote staff to keep their webcam on constitutes a human rights violation.”<\/p>\n “Florida-based Chetu must now pay $72,700\u00a0to a former remote staffer based in the Netherlands after the company fired him for refusing to keep his webcam on for “eight hours per day.”<\/p>\n Additionally, the court cited the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms: “Video surveillance of an employee in the workplace, be it covert or not, must be considered as a considerable intrusion into the employee’s private life.”<\/p>\n The Dutch employee said he was uncomfortable and felt it was an invasion of his privacy by the company to monitor him at all times via his webcam during a virtual training program. The monitoring also required the employee to share his laptop screen, said the Fortune,<\/em><\/a> adding that the company promptly fired him, citing “insubordination” and “refusal to work” as the reasons.<\/p>\n The company said it fired the worker for “refusal to work” and “insubordination,” The Verge<\/em><\/a> reported.<\/p>\n