Fireable offense, or just incredibly bad judgment that merits less drastic discipline? You make the call in the case of the principal, the six-year-old and the toilet.
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Tags: discipline, fireable offense, principal, student, toilet
As an HR pro, have you ever had to discipline employees for not wearing proper safety equipment?
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Tags: discipline, Nigeria, safety equipment
A school district in Arizona has counseled its special education director and apologized to the parent of students with disabilities after the director parked illegally in a handicapped space.
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Tags: counseling, disabilities, discipline, handicapped parking
Why didn’t someone in HR think of this sooner? Push-ups as discipline for being late to work.
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Tags: discipline, fired, lateness
We’re sure that as an HR pro, you do your best to encourage a collegial atmosphere at work whenever possible. We’d say calling someone a terrorist isn’t very collegial.
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Tags: discipline, teacher, terrorist
When it comes to employee discipline, this is how it’s supposed to work: Taking action against one worker for wrongdoing discourages others from trying the same thing.
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Tags: china, discipline, fired
A federal court has ruled that a city did not violate the Constitutional rights of an employee who received a verbal reprimand for having an affair.
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Tags: affair, court, discipline, fired
The story of a bureaucrat in Japan who was suspended and demoted for offensive surfing at work provides the public (and you lucky HR Blunders readers), an opportunity to chime in on what would constitute appropriate discipline.
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Tags: discipline, pornography, Web surfing
