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Sacked IT Manager Sues Referee For £10m
News An IT manager who was sacked from a city bank is suing a previous employer over the job reference that caused his departure. Johnson was sacked from Deutsche Bank in 2001 on the grounds of the reference, less than a year after joining as an IT...
[March 20, 2003, 8:45]
Ten Sacked Over 'lewd Email'
News Ten employees have been sacked and about 75 suspended at insurance company Royal and Sun Alliance (RSA) in Liverpool for distributing "lewd email". The offending emails featured a doctored picture of Bart Simpson in a sexual clinch, although a...
[January 5, 2001, 12:28]
Joke Email Gets London Bus Employees Sacked
News The company felt that those involved had "conspired to undermine and harrass" the manager and both were sacked. However, one of the sacked employees, Godfrey Aberdeen, is a local convenor of the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU), and is...
[March 29, 2001, 11:43]
Manchester Police Boss Sacked For Downloading Porn
News One of Britain's largest police forces has sacked a manager for downloading pornography on his computer and sexually harassing female colleagues. At the beginning of this year, ten employees were sacked and 75 suspended at insurance company Royal...
[March 8, 2001, 14:02]
DVLA Staff Sacked Over Pornographic Emails
Talkback Porn is getting distributed at the DVLA and people are getting sacked? Anyone got any job application forms in the Swansea area?
[June 29, 2006, 10:48]
Surveillance: Net Surfing Could Get You Sacked
News In June Lois Franxhi, a British IT manager was sacked for using the Internet to book a holiday. Employers are using Net surfing as an excuse to sack hundreds of people according to one expert. Others believe employers are panicking over how to...
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
23 Sacked For Email Abuse
News The dangers of Net use at work were highlighted again this week as the influential New York Times sacked 23 of its office staff Wednesday for sending "offensive" emails. In the UK, there have been several "sacked for surfing" cases in the last year...
[December 3, 1999, 17:22]
Merrill Lynch Staff Sacked Over Porn, Say Reports
News City stockbrokers Merrill Lynch has sacked 15 members of its London staff for sending offensive material on its system, say reports. According to the Evening Standard, the offences allegedly included the downloading of pornographic material.
[October 13, 2000, 16:50]
News Burst: Ten Sacked Over 'lewd Email'
News Ten employees have been sacked and about 75 suspended at insurance company Royal and Sun Alliance (RSA) in Liverpool for distributing "lewd email". The emails featured a doctored picture of cartoon character Bart Simpson in a sexual clinch.
[January 5, 2001, 8:52]
Email Spat Gets PAs Sacked
News The two PAs were sacked by their employer, and other staff are being disciplined, according to reports. Two legal PAs have been fired after an email argument spiralled out of control. The claws came out after Katrina Nugent sent an email to all the...
[September 9, 2005, 18:35]
DVLA Staff Sacked Over Pornographic Emails
News In May 2002, Ford Motor company in Dagenham was forced to announce an amnesty on pornographic and other inappropriate emails, and in September 2000 Orange sacked forty people for sending pornography over the Internet.
[June 22, 2006, 10:10]
A Year Ago: Twenty Three Sacked For Email Abuse
News The dangers of Net use at work were highlighted again this week as the influential New York Times sacked 23 of its office staff Wednesday for sending "offensive" emails. In the UK, there have been several "sacked for surfing" cases in the last year...
[December 3, 2000, 6:02]
PlusNet's Sacked Chief Exec Could Sue
News An article in Wednesday's Independent suggested that Strafford and finance director Neil Comer, who both left PlusNet on Monday, had been sacked for "plotting to establish a new business that would have been to the detriment of PlusNet".
[March 7, 2007, 15:28]
Email Spat Gets PAs Sacked
Talkback I think the transcript is both hilarious and absolutely infantile, I can absolutely see why they were sacked! Bearing in mind that they were working for a LAW FIRM, one would have expected that they might be a bit more clued up about things like...
[September 13, 2005, 15:43]
Researcher Sacked Over Anti-Microsoft Paper
Talkback poor security for the security man, charity bgins at home. Will Bill find him a job?
[September 29, 2003, 22:54]
Email Spat Gets PAs Sacked
Talkback What need was there to sack anyone? Why didn't the boss just say, "Get back to work"? I'd stay away from a wowser firm like Allens.
[September 12, 2005, 13:36]
Researcher Sacked Over Anti-Microsoft Paper
News A computer security expert who contributed to a paper deeply critical of Microsoft has been dismissed by his employer, a consulting company that works closely with the software giant. Dan Geer, a longtime computer security researcher, and several...
[September 26, 2003, 8:50]
Sacked Worker Blames Porn On Malware
News A US district judge has upheld a motion to dismiss in the case of hospital respiratory therapist David Farr, who filed a lawsuit against his former employer for unlawful termination after losing his job in August 2005.
[October 3, 2007, 17:12]
UK Banks Deny Planning Database Of Sacked Staff
News The British Bankers Association (BBA) has hit back at reports that it is developing a database to share details of staff that have been fired for misuse of data. It was reported on Monday that the BBA plans to follow in the footsteps of the Bits...
[November 1, 2005, 15:45]
One.Tel Sacks One Thousand Workers
News One thousand One.Tel staff were sacked on Friday following the collapse of the junior telco. Rahui said a good proportion of the one thousand sacked workers would be Sydney based, however, One.Tel will keep 400 staff on the ground to help with the...
[June 11, 2001, 11:26]
