Careers: Know your rights: Row that could cost me my job.Byline: ...with Justin Madders, employment law specialist at the Paul Rooney  This article or section is an autobiography, or has been extensively edited by the subject, and may not conform to Wikipedia's NPOV policy.Please see the relevant discussion on the . Partnership Q: I WORK as a maintenance engineer on one of my employer's customer's sites. I am based there the entire time and have normally got on well with the customer's own employees. However,last week I had a blazing row with one of their staff and have now been told by my employers that I may lose my job because the customer does not want me on that site any more. Can they do this? Justin says: Your employers, if they wish to,could discipline you for this and could find that what you did constitutes gross misconduct MISCONDUCT. Unlawful behaviour by a person entrusted in any degree: with the administration of justice, by which the rights of the parties and the justice of the, case may have been affected. 2. ,although that would depend upon what you actually said and what your contract of employment states. They would need to go through proper disciplinary procedures in order to do this. If the customer says they don't want you back on the site, then your employers cannot really argue with that. If your employers find they have nowhere else to put you, then it may well be that you do lose your job and an employment tribunal Employment Tribunals are inferior courts in Great Britain which have statutory jurisdiction to hear many kinds of disputes between employers and employees. The most common disputes being concerned with unfair dismissal and discrimination. would probably find your dismissal was fair. |
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