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News Roundup: Sacking Shadow Haunts IT Workers
News Bad news in the mobile phone sector, combined with a US economic slowdown, has meant many of the UK's high-tech workers have been facing redundancy. Big name firms haven't been slow in axing hundreds, or even thousands, of employees as they attempt...
[April 3, 2001, 9:49]
Email Sacking Costs Microsoft $9m
News A former Microsoft employee has been awarded $9m (£6.20m) by an Australian court after being fired via an email message from the software giant, without using his share options. Michael Canizales, who had the option to buy Microsoft shares at...
[September 5, 2000, 13:02]
Surfing Results In Sacking
News Lois Franxhi, an IT manager at Focus Management Consultants, was sacked in July last year for using the Internet to book a holiday. In what could prove to be a landmark case, an industrial tribunal yesterday found in favour of her employers.
[June 16, 1999, 14:38]
Joke Email Gets London Bus Employees Sacked
News Londoners affected by the tube strike will not be pleased to hear that employees of bus company London United are to strike today in protest against the sacking of two colleagues for a joke email. However, one of the sacked employees, Godfrey...
[March 29, 2001, 11:43]
Smutty Banker Awarded Compensation
News While the tribunal agreed with this assessment of Sangster's actions, it also stated that he had not been properly informed about the email policy within the bank, and as such his sacking was unfounded.
[December 12, 2002, 15:28]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Certainly not in Edinburgh Waterstone's, which celebrated 2005 by sacking the man -- Joe Gordon -- for blogging vaguely disrespectful things about his boss. And sacking brilliant staff for the misdemeanour of poking fun at bad management is a very...
[January 14, 2005, 12:30]
Surveillance: Net Surfing Could Get You Sacked
News Employers are burying the real reasons for sacking staff in Internet misuse," he said. But Bynoe believes there is a less sinister motive to sacking over Net use at work. Employers are using Net surfing as an excuse to sack hundreds of people...
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
Orange Sacks Forty Over Internet Porn
News Mobile phone network operator Orange admits Friday it has sacked forty members of staff for the "distribution of inappropriate material" in what is believed to be the biggest Internet sacking case in the UK.
[September 1, 2000, 15:22]
Blogger Axed By Waterstone's
Talkback I saw that button on a few blogs following the first major blog-sacking and now I've got it on mine. Promote free speech online. Everyone who owns a blog should have it.
[January 11, 2005, 12:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Talkback Probably down to the beeb sacking most of it's engineers and flogging the rest off at the first opportunity
[February 14, 2005, 12:28]
Metricom To Close Ricochet
News The company also announced an auction of company assets on 16 August and the immediate sacking of 282 employees. The company has begun notifying customers and resellers of the high-speed service that the 17-city network will shut down on 8 August.
[August 3, 2001, 16:15]
Will Nobody Think Of The Bees?
Blog Then, noticing that it wasn't selling very well, it hit upon the idea that it could attract more readers by sacking half its editorial staff. Once upon a time, the Independent was a serious newspaper, taking serious stands on serious issues.
[April 22, 2007, 22:42]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog There's a suggestion that the attack is linked to the sacking of a gay member of staff which has already caused protests on the street outside. Wednesday 24/11/2004 Alarming news from Italy, where the Senate has been hit by -- oh, there's no polite...
[November 26, 2004, 17:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's the equivalent of a city abandoning the poll tax and hoping the revenue from the billboards will cover council expenses — expenses it's reducing by sacking thousands of staff. Monday 7/8/2006 AOL's having a hard knock life.
[August 11, 2006, 19:15]
Italian Senate Hit By Hack Attack
News Firstly there was the debacle when Rocco Butiglione, Italy's candidate for European Union Commissioner, branded homosexuality a sin, and secondly the sacking of Senate vice-president Dario Mattiello after he was pictured at a gay night spot in Rome.
[November 24, 2004, 16:00]
Consumer Electronic Spending Will Defy Global Slowdown
News It may sound odd to predict growth, given that many technology companies are sacking staff because of the slump in the high-tech sector. Analysts expect that UK consumers will increase their spending on consumer electronics devices, despite fears...
[July 5, 2001, 6:28]
Deutsche Telekom Sheds CEO
Blog Reacting to DT's reasoning that choosing Obermann will ensure continuity, Bieler said he found this argument "odd" and quite reasonably asked how you ensure continuity by sacking the CEO. The analysts have come out in force to mourn (sort of) the...
[November 13, 2006, 15:47]
2001: Email Misdemeanours
News Five days into the new year, a smutty Bart Simpson email resulted in the sacking of ten employees at the insurance company Royal and Sun Alliance, and the suspension of a further 75 staff. In 2001, email got one step closer to middle age as it hit...
[December 31, 2001, 6:31]
Oracle Gets Its Way, Finally
News The very public sacking of Craig Conway has surprised the tech sector - and it's denied the industry a chance to see him lock horns with Larry. Oracle buys PeopleSoft PeopleSoft's board has agreed a $10bn takeover deal with Oracle after a year of...
[December 13, 2004, 16:40]
News Schmooze: Chips Learn To Communicate
News They're also putting the XScale chips into everything in sight, a massive effort that could only be made possible by sacking 7,000 people in the communications division. For example, new memory technologies that use photons, nanometres and very...
[March 1, 2002, 16:36]
