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GETTING THE BOOT FOR YOUR LOOT: CAN AN EMPLOYEE BE DISMISSED FOR TAKING PART IN VIOLENCE OR LOOTING?

Getting The Boot For Your Loot: Can An Employee Be Dismissed For Taking Part In Violence Or Looting?

An employee’s conduct outside of their workplace and ordinary work hours is not subject to the control or authority of their employer. Ordinarily, facing disciplinary proceedings for one’s after-hours actions would not be considered “substantively fair”. Even arrest or criminal activity by an employee does not give an employer the automatic right of dismissal. The purpose of this Act is, among other things, “to create offences which have a bearing on cybercrime; to criminalise the disclosure of data messages which are harmful …” and creates mechanisms and procedures for determining and prosecuting the criminalised activities enumerated therein.

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Developments In Preventing And Eliminating Violence And Harassment In The Workplace

A Draft Code of Good Practice on the Prevention and Elimination of Violence and Harassment in the World of Work was published for comment on the 20th of August 2020. Four forms of violence and harassment in the workplace are enumerated, namely: sexual violence and harassment; racial, ethnic, or social origin violence and harassment; workplace bullying; and protected disclosures. This code

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