A state employee should not have been fired for sending an “argumentative” email to a co-worker, even though he had been the subject of prior disciplinary action, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.
A three-judge panel of the court ruled Monday in Irani v. State Civil Service Commission (Department of Health) that an email a state Department of Health employee sent to another employee had not been combative, and was therefore not a sufficient basis for the employee’s termination. The panel’s decision reversed an order from the state Civil Service Commission sustaining the termination.
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