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[Closed] HR advice following "gross misconduct"

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help pls

my mother is in bits, she works for an opticians, she is the person that does the pre screen tests (basic test before the proper eye tests etc)

her boss has been piling on the pressure for her to up her hours (3 days a week to 5) even though she is being medicated for stress, and repeatedly asked him to back off, though none of this formalised....

in a moment of madness she printed of historical info rather than carrying out new tests, to ease her load on a particluar day and allow herself to leave on time..... really stupid thing to do she is aware of this....

they have a proceedure to check this so it really was madness, and she was imediately caught.

now facing a formal proceedure and advised this is to be treated as gross misconduct (no surprise there really)

IMHO she is clearly going to be out of a job soon, she is suspended until later on this week when there will be a another meeting, but the question i would ask the stw knowledgeable are as follows:

is there any way to damage limit this?

will she automatically get an employment bad mark, or bad reference?

is it better for her to resign before she is fired?

will her "mitigating" circumstances in anyway help her? (mitigating being up for discussion tbh)

any advice welcome, she is meeting with the CAB on monday btw, anyone else she should try?

 
Posted : 26/03/2010 7:46 pm

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