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Employment — contract — termination — summary dismissal — misconduct justifying — what is.
The respondent had been employed as a floor manager in the appellant's tobacco auction floors. While so employed, he re-handled bales of several growers' tobacco which had been sent for auction but which had been rejected for sale. He then marked and resold the tobacco, using the grower's number of one farmer, with whom he was in collusion. In so doing, he deceived his employers, made a profit for which he should have accounted to the several growers involved, and breached the law governing the auctioning of tobacco, by using a grower's number other than the numbers of the actual growers to sell the tobacco. He was summarily dismissed for misconduct but the High Court ordered his reinstatement. On appeal by the employer, Held, that the respondent's actions had amounted to misconduct "inconsistent with the fulfilment of the expressed or implied conditions of his contract" of employment, and the dismissal was therefore justified under s 8(1)(a) of the Employment Act 1980.
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