Sable loses 3-week employee's wrongful dismissal case

2012-12-13 13:48 ET - Street Wire

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This is another warning to all employers. The year is 2012, not 1952. The time difference in societal values is significant. In my opinion, and in my mind, in 1952, when I began a work career, if an employee had somehow misrepresented his skills and experience to a prospective employer, and could therefore not perform his expected duties, he could and might have been fired immediately, and that would have ended the situation.

In 2012, the courts, in our system of social type justice, will often find a way to blame the company for the employee's misrepresentation, so the company pays, and the employee walks away, well compensated, having learned little or no important life lesson for his future.

Thus , the moral situation for all our society sinks a bit furthur into the mire. Of course, all these statement of mine herein are not to be understood as at all factual, but are only thoughts present in my mind only, and I consider them to be useful in what should be free debate in a democratic type society in which free polite discussion needs to be be allowed.