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A sacking or two or ....
Talkback The loser of the mem stick and the next two superiors up should be dismissed regardless - it was lost and the regulations governing mem sticks failed to prevent it. If there has been a disregard of written instructions for use of mem sticks then a...
[December 30, 2008, 7:17]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
lezlow here
Talkback its ironic when the councils are sacking staff now and then if you go into any town hall with a wad of money in your hand and say i want to pay my arrears but i aint got proof of id.i,ll bet they take your do then ask questions and what about our...
[August 26, 2009, 23:17]
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]
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]
Colchester University Hospital sacks manager over lost laptop
Blog Comment Whilst I admit to having no knowledge of the real situation, I can't help feeling that there was either one sacking too many, or about a dozen too few.
[August 16, 2008, 20:46]
Fujitsu seeks payment for NHS IT work
News Fujitsu Services has submitted a claim for payment to the NHS, following its sacking in May from the National Programme for IT. A spokesperson for the firm refused to confirm or deny a claim in The Independent newspaper that the vendor is asking...
[September 2, 2008, 8:17]
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]
Sackings not the answer
Talkback As for sacking their superiors that would be virtually certain to result in an unfair dismissal claim that is likely to be very difficult to defend. Even if it is correct to assume that written instructions were not followed it would not...
[January 7, 2009, 11:08]
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]
