Originally Posted by
Graham Breeze
Mind reading?
I once sacked a gas meter collector (which was the lowest post in the Company) at a joint Trade Union Hearing for borrowing a trivial amount of money during the collection week ("teeming and ladling") which technically was theft. The collector was not very bright but had over 20 years service, his sister had cancer,...the case cried out for mercy but my Trade Union opposite number and I decided that we had to follow the letter of the Company Law (theft = automatic dismissal) but assumed that the higher Joint Appeals Panel would override our judgement and display magnanimity etc. My boss, who would deal with the appeal, was content with what the panel had done.
But his Trade Union equivalent decided not to appeal the case.