Orange Sackings Over 'severed Body Parts'
News A source close to Orange claims the sackings at mobile phone operator Orange were over the distribution of images of 'severed body parts' rather than pornography, as was originally reported. Although Orange will not confirm the details a...
[September 4, 2000, 16:01]
Zero Notice Sackings - Techies Want Honesty
News That's the conclusion of a survey released Monday by Bloomington, Minnesota-based Techies.com, a career portal for information technology workers. Researchers determined that laid-off employees value truthfulness more than any other factor--but...
[July 18, 2001, 18:37]
UK Staff In The Dark On Blogs
News Despite a number of high-profile sackings involving employees who blogged about their employers, it seems most UK workers are unaware of how their bosses feel about blogs. While employees of Google and Waterstones having been on the receiving end...
[September 27, 2005, 11:15]
Most Internet Abuse Dismissals Related To Porn
News Sixty-nine percent of the sackings relate to pornography. While the majority of dismissals were porn related, other sackings were for use of chat rooms, race hate and discriminatory sites. A survey by Personnel Today and Internet filtering company...
[July 9, 2002, 16:50]
Ten Sacked Over 'lewd Email'
News Though the sackings were condemned as "an absurd over-reaction" by one company source the spokesman says that the offensive nature of many of the emails justifies the dismissals. Sackings began this week and the suspensions occurred over the...
[January 5, 2001, 12:28]
Surveillance: Net Surfing Could Get You Sacked
News Both sackings made the headlines and one expert suggested to ZDNet that there's more to them than employers' are prepared to admit. Robin Bynoe, partner with City law firm Charles Russell, claimed more sackings related to Net use are inevitable.
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
News Roundup: To Email Or Not To Email?
News Orange sackings over 'severed body parts' Mon, 04 Sep Pictures of severed body parts blamed for sackings rather than porn Freedom of speech is becoming an increasingly convoluted issue. Are we or aren't we allowed personal communication at work?
[December 19, 2000, 9:19]
Staff Suspended For Bart Email Keep Jobs
News Paul Atkinson, head of communications at Royal & Sun Alliance, says the suspensions and sackings were the result of serious misconduct. Atkinson says that no single email message caused the sackings and the decision to sack some employees and not...
[January 11, 2001, 14:38]
Ministers Blamed Over £30m ID Fraud
Talkback I certainly hope that there will be a considerable number of sackings and grade reductions among the civil servants in the Department. The senior executive civil servants must accept responsibility for failing to have checks in place to ensure that...
[December 6, 2005, 19:33]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Lots of sackings and lots of slapped wrists -- no, not in a good way -- for employees at the Department of Wa… sorry, Work and Penchants, whose online forays into arousing content didn't stand up at the disciplinary hearings.
[August 27, 2004, 17:20]
Jane Wakefield: Hear The Email Generation Calling
News Email has had something of a bad press recently, implicated in countless sackings and causing poor old Clair Swires never to be able to swallow anything again without being reminded that the whole world knows what her favourite snack is.
[April 25, 2001, 10:49]
News Burst: Ten Sacked Over 'lewd Email'
News According to BBC Online, the sackings were reported to have started this week and the suspensions over the Christmas period. Ten employees have been sacked and about 75 suspended at insurance company Royal and Sun Alliance (RSA) in Liverpool for...
[January 5, 2001, 8:52]
Blogging: A Double-edged Sword
News However, high profile sackings due to negative blog postings have hurt the reputations of several companies, as in the case of Google, Delta Air Lines, Waterstone’s and Friendster. PR company Edelman called for more employer guidelines on blogging...
[September 9, 2005, 16:45]
QXL Denies Restructuring Reports After Raising £30m
News Stan Laurent, president of strategic development at QXL has denied there will be any sackings. Online auction firm QXL (quote: QXL) confirmed Thursday that it had successfully completed a £30m round of funding, but denies reports that this will...
[December 1, 2000, 15:27]
23 Sacked For Email Abuse
News Robin Bynoe partner with City law firm Charles Russell, doubts the sackings were justified. 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...
[December 3, 1999, 17:22]
A Year Ago: Twenty Three Sacked For Email Abuse
News Robin Bynoe partner with City law firm Charles Russell, doubts the sackings were justified. The NYT sacks 23 for sending rude emails about the boss, UK legal expert warns of more to follow The dangers of Net use at work were highlighted again this...
[December 3, 2000, 6:02]
McKinnon Should Be Scared; So Should America
Leader But we have no evidence that the authorities really took his actions seriously: where is the widespread reform, where the sackings and new blood, that would normally follow from a breach of this claimed magnitude?
[May 10, 2006, 16:10]
Manchester Police Boss Sacked For Downloading Porn
News Company policy typically bans downloading pornography, but sackings for Internet abuse have gained momentum in the UK, in recent months. One of Britain's largest police forces has sacked a manager for downloading pornography on his computer and...
[March 8, 2001, 14:02]
Online Job Ads Keep Sliding
News Given the raft of sackings in IT&T in the run up to Christmas, Olivier says the stigma associated with retrenchment no longer exists in the industry, and that job seekers should be entirely honest with prospective employers.
[January 7, 2002, 12:25]
Most IT Contractors 'distort' Job Applications
News Most of the discrepancies were harmless omissions or honest mistakes, but the company said that fears of recession have been leading job applicants to increasingly cover up redundancies, sackings, previous jobs and poor academic histories -- as...
[April 24, 2003, 12:03]
