Rojgar Job News

You are hearing the appeal of an employee with less than two years’ service dismissed on the grounds of admitted poor conduct. What can possibly go wrong? Certainly not the seeming afterthought on the employee’s part, not mentioned at the dismissal stage, that her conduct might in part be explained by a depressive condition of which you had no knowledge. Besides, some of the conduct cannot be caused by the alleged disability and in the circumstances (the end of probation) that would be enough for you to act upon anyway. As we say, nothing can go wrong. Except Baldeh – v – Churches Housing Association of Dudley and District , that is. Baldeh was dismissed at the end of her probationary period for a list of shortcomings including breaches of confidentiality, an aggressive and dictatorial tone in internal and external communications and breach of professional boundaries in her dealings with service users. In her appeal meeting Baldeh admitted that she could sometime...