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business.
• Indecency, which is related to employment with the Company.
• Deliberate damage to Company's property, or to the property of fellow employees.
• Use of Company vehicles and/or commercial vehicles without authorisation.
• Carrying unauthorised goods or passengers in Company commercial vehicles
• Intoxication on the Company's premises or the bringing of intoxicants or illegal drugs onto the
Company's premises at any time.
• Carelessness or negligence: including any action or failure to act which threatens the health
or safety of any fellow employee or member of the public including any disregard of safety
rules which jeopardises the safety of those on the Company's premises.
• Loss of driving license where driving on public roads forms an essential part of an employee's
duties.
• Failure to comply with the provisions of the Company's Health and Safety Policy.
• Failure to observe the confidential nature of information concerning the Company and the
Company's clients.
• Undertaking private work on the Company's premises and/or working hours without express
permission.
• Working in competition with the Company.
• Any conduct, which does or may bring the Company's business into disrepute.
• Breach of contract of employment: any fundamental breach of contract, which renders
continuation of employment impossible including failure to meet statute, related provisions.
• Sleeping during working hours.
• Harassment of other employees or of others, whether the harassment is sexual, racial or of
any other kind.
• Discrimination against other employees, applicants for employment or others which is on
grounds of gender, race, colour, ethnic origin, membership of the Travelling community,
marital status, family status, disability, religion, sexual orientation, age, nationality, part-time
or fixed term status or any other serious breach or non-observance of the Company's Equality
Policy.
• Obtaining unauthorised access to, making unauthorised use of, or making unauthorised
amendments to information stored on computers, computer software or computer hardware.
• Sexist or racist conduct or behaviour of any kind.
• Failure to comply with the provisions of the Company's electronics communications policy-
− wilfully and knowingly introducing a virus on to the Company's computer system;
− using an unauthorised software on the Company's computer equipment;
− sending email of a malicious, fictitious, defamatory, or pornographic nature or
downloading material of a malicious, fictitious, defamatory, or pornographic nature onto
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