OFFENSE

EMPLOYER’S PENALTY

RESULT ON APPEAL

DESCRIPTION

CASE NAME

Conduct Unbecoming On Duty

Termination

Reinstatement With Back Pay

Firefighter surreptitiously taped up to 20 conversations with command officers, whom she believed were “setting her up.” Department did not have an express rule dealing with recording of conversations, and Arbitrator concluded that the firefighter’s belief that she was being “set up” was not “beyond reason.”

Toledo Firefighters, Local 92, FMCS #07-01828 (Wait, 2008).

Dishonesty

Termination

Termination

Officer released many firearms from evidence room rather than destroying them, obtaining several of the guns himself and personally profiting from selling some of them. Officer admitted that evidence room records were “contrary to reality.”

Morrison v. Baton Rouge Police Department, 2007 WL 4480709 (La.App. 2007).

Sexual Misconduct

Indefinite Suspension (Termination)

Reinstatement With Back Pay

Officer was suspended for posting sexually explicit and racially offensive pictures and comments on his MySpace.com web page. Employer failed to comply with a provision in state law requiring the employer to notify employees of their appeal rights from discipline.

City of Watauga, Texas, LAIG 6531 (Bennett, 2007).