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Employee dismissed after using a wrong discount code once. What should be analysed?
Substantive fairness — misconduct dismissal
Sidumo and Another v Rustenburg Platinum Mines Ltd
National Lotteries Board v CCMA
Schedule 8 Code of Good Practice: Dismissal
Sample principle: Dismissal sanction must be assessed against fairness, proportionality and the totality of circumstances.
Sample principle: Progressive discipline may be relevant where misconduct is isolated and corrective action was available.
Sample principle: Trust relationship findings require evidential support, not merely assertion.
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A cashier used the wrong discount code once during a rush, corrected it, and reported it before cash-up. Can dismissal stand?
Substantive fairness: misconduct dismissal
Dismissal looks vulnerable unless the employer can prove dishonesty, serious risk, actual loss, or a genuine breakdown of trust. The strongest analysis is sanction proportionality: this appears isolated, corrected or reported, and low-harm.
View full resultA chemotherapy patient asked for flexible start times and was dismissed for poor attendance. Does accommodation arise?
Reasonable accommodation / disability-related employment issue
Accommodation plainly arises. Before treating attendance as poor performance or misconduct, the employer should have considered flexible start times or other workable adjustments, unless it can show an inherent job requirement or undue hardship.
View full resultA black employee earns less than a white colleague doing identical work and the employer cites market forces. What must be proved?
Unfair discrimination / equal pay
The analysis must identify the listed or arbitrary ground, the comparator, the work comparison, and the employer’s justification. In an equal-pay claim, the employee must link the pay difference to a protected or arbitrary ground, not merely show different remuneration.
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