Spanish justices decided earlier this week that a worker who filed suit be reinstated to his former position at T&D Innovación y Mantenimiento S.A. because there is no specific law regulating the Internet at the workplace.
The decision was a setback for the computer maintenance company because it had prevailed in two previous lower court rulings in the Basque Country.
Innovación y Mantenimiento had installed spyware on the employee’s computer and also complained that he spent time visiting chat rooms while on the company’s dime.
Justices ordered Innovación y Mantenimiento to pay the worker $5,400 in damages, as well as $55 a day since his firing.
