sackable

British

/ ˈsækəbəl /

adjective

of or denoting an offence, infraction of rules, etc, that is sufficently serious to warrant dismissal from an employment

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Spending less than an hour during work browsing properties or shopping online is not a sackable offence, a UK judge has ruled.

From BBC

Aston Villa boss Carla Ward said players and coaches being in relationships was "crossing that line" and should be a sackable offence.

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Asked if a player-coach relationship should become a sackable offence, Ward said: "Yeah, 100%."

From BBC

His sackable offences, he recalled, included telling a Coronation Street actor he couldn't come in wearing white jeans; and impersonating a council employee to tell a ticket holder who had been rude to a colleague that their water was going to be cut off.

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It was worse than a bad day at the office - edging a split decision against a debutant may well be a sackable offence.

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