OFFENSE

EMPLOYER’S PENALTY

RESULT ON APPEAL

DESCRIPTION

CASE NAME

Conduct

28-Hour Suspension And Transfer

28-Hour Suspension And Transfer

Firefighter aimed a rifle scope at a female lieutenant. Firefighter had recently been warned that horseplay would not be tolerated.

City of Philadelphia, 34 PPER ¶84 (Pa. LRB ALJ 2003).

Excessive Force

Termination

Termination

Three corrections officers assaulted an inmate in retaliation for an earlier incident in which the inmate attempted to bite one of the officer’s ears.@

Esparza v. Bexar County, 2003 WL 23005015 (Tex.App. 2003).

Insubordination

Termination

5-Day Suspension

Corrections officer refused direct order to work overtime, using profanity in the process. Officer’s babysitter was not available after officer’s regular shift, officer’s refusal was his first refusal to obey his superiors’ order in his 12-year employment with Department, and termination exceeded normal range of sanctions on a disciplinary matrix.

Department of Corrections v. State Civil Service Commission, 2003 WL 22956649 (Pa.Cmwlth. 2003).

Theft

Termination

Termination

Sergeant indiscriminately gave out her employer-issued private personal identification number to her subordinates to use for long distance calling at the employer’s expense.

Cain v. Eastern Michigan University, 2003 WL 22902845 (Mich.App. 2003).