You’re fired! – minor misconduct accumulation or just acting on managerial gut feeling?
Long gone are the days when your boss could, completely out of the blue, walk up to your desk and shout ‘You’re fired!’…or are they? The Employment Appeal Tribunal (‘EAT’) recently considered the issue whether a series of relatively minor acts of misconduct can be “aggregated” to justify a fair dismissal without any prior warning. […]