In South Korea, A
bank employee was found to be playing online games that use crypto as its in game currency. The bank claimed that the employee is a habitual gambler and fired him from his job. The ex-employee naturally raised his concern to HR as he thinks it is unfair dismissal but the HR rejected his appeal which led him to file a lawsuit. In the end, even the court sided with the bank. Even though the ex-employee claims that he never played during work hours and that his habits did not interfere with his work quality, the court rules it to be undignified to be gambling with crypto.
If crypto wasn't involved, do you think this employee would have gotten fired?
For gambling, big financial institutions will never allow you to gamble because they handle money and their main means of business is money. So if a bank officer is addicted to gambling, he will not be able to do the bank accounts and all the work there properly, he will always be inattentive to work, his mind will be on gambling. No matter what the man says here, he is addicted to gambling, he had to lose his job because of his gambling addiction, if he had not been addicted to gambling, he would have got a verdict in his favor in the court.
So even if his gambling had not involved crypto, he would still have been fired because the bank never allows any employee to gamble and their constitution may not allow it. However, he should have been gambling secretly at home for entertainment.