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Firms enter into outsourcing contracts with clients, providing resources to perform services on site. On occasion, and perhaps increasingly, clients demand the removal of such firm’s resources from site, normally in accordance with a contractual term. Generally the demand is based on lawful and fair grounds such as dishonesty and can be dealt with by […] A client recently dismissed an employee for dishonesty because the employee had gone to the on-site Deli and ordered from the cashier a large plate of chips, which he paid for. At the orders counter he asked for and received a large plate of chips but also a hamburger and a pie. He made no […] I have been asked this question a couple of times this last week. Although the term “disciplinary hearing” remains in common use in business, the legal fraternity, the CCMA and even the Courts, there is also a growing movement to dispense with terms of a criminal orientation. After all, employees are simply going through a […] |