whats the penalty if found guilty of this after investigation,assuming its the sack,what would happen if in 6 months time your supposed malicious rumour was found to be in actual fact 100% true.ta
Your not going to tell us Stobarts are going bust are you 
That particular gem has gone round every truckstop and rdc since about 1987
ady1:
whats the penalty if found guilty of this after investigation,assuming its the sack,what would happen if in 6 months time your supposed malicious rumour was found to be in actual fact 100% true.ta
I would say that for spreading a malicious rumour to be gross misconduct it would probably need to be about a fellow worker and would probably need to be of a nature that’s going to cause ongoing distress.
If you were sacked for such an offence and 6 months later the rumour was found to be true I don’t see that it would make any difference to the fact that you’d spread a rumour that at the time you couldn’t prove had any validity, so I don’t see why it would make any difference to the disciplinary outcome, you’d still remain sacked and any court case would almost certainly come to the conclusion that the sacking was fair and that the company acted correctly given the information that was available at the time.
If you have no evidence to substantiate your gossip … don’t say it
ady1:
whats the penalty if found guilty of this after investigation,assuming its the sack,what would happen if in 6 months time your supposed malicious rumour was found to be in actual fact 100% true.ta
I would use my barristers hat and suggest that a malicious rumour that was actual fact, was not a malicious rumour at all, in fact my learn’ed friend said as much some 6 months ago.
If I told you Whitney Houston would be dead by February, that may have been seen as a malicious rumour in September. Now try telling me I was wrong 
It could also be that the malicious rumour could become self- fulfilling.
Word gets out (wrongly) a haulier is facing bankruptcy, drivers start leaving, banks get twitchy giving credit, customers lose confidence — 6 months later haulier goes under as a result.
You could argue that the person who started the rumour was in fact 100% correct, or they actually caused the problems in the first place.
Look, they weren’t mine under the bunk. I picked up the wrong pile of clothes. Now shut up about it… 
sorry wrong forum[must get more sleep],but thanks for replys,it was more the IF it became true in 6 months time i was really intrested in,seems unfair to be sacked [possibily] then find out 6 months later the persons so called malicious rumour was in actual fact true.