Gujarat: Bank clerk calls boss ‘hoodlum’, loses job

Abusing your boss could cost you your job. A bank clerk lost his job for calling his branch manager a hoodlum and the labour court as well as the Gujarat high court have upheld his termination, by holding that the punishment is commensurate to the charge.

The case involved Harshad Dave, who was appointed as leave reserve cashier in the Bank of India’s Sardhar branch in 1973. Later, he was confirmed as staff clerk-cashier and posted at the Kasturbadham branch in Rajkot.

He did not seem to get along well with the branch manager and on February 21, 2002, Dave addressed his manger as ‘hoodlum’.

 

 

From the Ness Room of Dayanand N. Mangaonkar