Tribunal update: Employee sacked for trying to "steal" chocolate from vending machine
HR & Compliance Centre provides summaries of two recent employment tribunal rulings, as well as the full transcripts of these interesting decisions. This week's cases involve:
- an employee who was unfairly dismissed for shaking a vending machine to "steal" chocolate; and
- employees who were allowed to carry over holiday accrued during sickness absence to the following leave year.
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Also
In the employment tribunals Access the HR & Compliance Centre archive of tribunal decisions, as well as longer round-ups of cases on a particular topic.
Employment tribunal decisions in the headlines 03.10.11 to 09.10.11 A round-up of links to news items on employment tribunal rulings in the week beginning 3 October 2011, including a discrimination award for a barmaid on the Isles of Scilly and an unfair dismissal award for a scrap-metal worker on Jersey.