Summary Dismissal Of Employees

The Court of Appeal overturned a decision of the Industrial Tribunal given in the names of Marco Pisani vs The AV Warehouse and stated that summary dismissal of an employee must be the exception and not the rule.

In this case, the Tribunal decided that dismissal was justified due to an incident were some boxes fell off a lifter which the employee was operating after the employee stacked such boxes incorrectly. The employee had been given several warnings for being late and for general mistreatment of the equipment amongst other things and he was immediately dismissed following the final incident where the boxes fell off the lifter. The Court of Appeal analyzed the details of the case as heard before the Tribunal and noted that clear details were not provided as to the type of warnings and the number of warnings given. The Court stated that attention should have been paid to the issue which led to his dismissal, and a decision should have been taken on