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• 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
the Company's computers;
− In this regard employees should note that persons reporting suspected child abuse in good
faith will not be penalised in any way and are afforded the protections contained in the
Protection for Persons Reporting Child Abuse Act, 1998.

3.1.9 Minor Offences
The following are examples, which may be regarded as action warranting disciplinary action amounting
to less than summary dismissal, and for which dismissal may be appropriate if corrective action is not
taken after the issue of a verbal and/or written warning:

• Unauthorised absence
• Poor standard of work; or inadequate attention to work; demonstrably poor levels of
productivity

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