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LIMA (Reuters) – Peru's top court has ruled that workers cannot be fired for being drunk on the job, a decision that was criticized by the government on Wednesday for setting a dangerous precedent.
The Constitutional Tribunal ordered that Pablo Cayo be given his job back as a janitor for the municipality of Chorrillos, which fired him for being intoxicated at work.
You can't fire me, I'm drunk! - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090114/od_nm/us_court - broken link)