Managers and supervisors brace yourselves: calling the boss a dickhead is not necessarily a sackable offence, a tribunal has ruled.
The ruling came in the case of an office manager who was sacked on the spot when – during a row – she called her manager and another director dickheads.
Kerrie Herbert has been awarded almost £30,000 in compensation and legal costs after an employment tribunal found she had been unfairly dismissed.
Calling boss a dickhead was not a sackable offence, tribunal rules www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s... (England)
Ms K Herbert v Main Group Services Ltd www.gov.uk/employment-t...
(The employers were also the claimant's in-laws, though. The substantive decision was in 2023.)
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