Florida company ordered to pay $73,000 after it fired a remote employee who refused to keep his webcam on all day

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  • A Dutch court ruled a Florida company owed a remote employee $73,000 for wrongful termination.

  • He was fired for refusing to turn his webcam on for an all-day training, court documents say.

  • The court said making an employee keep their webcam on all day was an intrusion of privacy.

A court ruled last month that a Florida company owed a remote worker $73,000 after it fired him for refusing to keep his webcam on.

The employee worked remotely from the Netherlands for Chetu, a US software company. The company told him on August 23 that he'd need to keep his webcam on all day for a virtual training program, the NL Times reported.

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