On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 8:47 PM, Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote:

> You wonder, though, about statute of limitations for offenses. For
> instance, there is a correspondent for a major network who slipped
> drinks to underage college students at a journalism conference in
> rural Nevada in the late 1980s in an apparent attempt to sleep with
> them. Could he be sacked today for something that happened almost 30
> years ago? It's a longer period, but a more serious offense.
>

A statute of limitations applies only to prosecution, not employment. The
morals clause of an employment contract will call for termination in case
the employee brings shame to the company. If the shame happens in the
present it doesn't matter that the act occurred in the distant past.

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