Everything is Safe For Work in Norway

(Oslo, Norway) Two workers were fired for surfing the Internet to view pornography while working at the Ekofisk Field for Conoco Phillips. After losing their jobs, the workers filed suit for damages against Conoco Phillips and won in municipal court. They also won their case in the appeals court.

Conoco Phillips appealed the decisions to the Supreme Court in order to have a clarification of what employees can do on company time and what employers can do to enforce violations of company policy.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the firings were not justified and have (sic) awarded the two NOK 250,000 (USD 40,000) each in compensation.

This is an absolutely ludicrous decision by the Norwegian Supremes. They have decided that people cannot be fired for failing to perform the jobs they were hired to do. Despite what they were doing, the workers weren't working.

If satisfactory job performance is no longer a prerequisite for keeping a job, why go to work? Hell! It wouldn't surprise me if the Norwegians ruled that people have a right to keep their jobs even when they don't show up. Theoretically, there's an infinite number of jobs a person could be hired for and not do from home. The Jawa Report notes that this type of insanity is quite consistent with the leftist approach to utopia where nobody works and everybody gets paid.