Employee sacked for taking company car in a day late for service

Fair Work Australia has upheld Hunter Water Corporation's dismissal of one if its employees who failed to take his defective car to be serviced immediately.

Troy Powell was dismissed after he reported a transmission fault with his work vehicle and was instructed by his supervisor to take the car to a local car dealership to be serviced and not attend any further jobs that day.

However, Powell drove the car to two more jobs, before taking it to a dealership the following day.

Before the incident occurred, Powell had already been warned twice during his more than two years of working at the water corporation, receiving a verbal warning – later confirmed in writing – for an inappropriate email, and a written warning for speaking to his supervisor in an "inappropriate and offensive manner".

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