What Action Can Company Take On Employee For Security Breach Incident ?

Disciplinary Actions are those which are taken by an employer against his employee for misconduct committed by the employee within the establishment and in certain circumstances, even outside the premises of the establishment. In keeping with Principles of Natural Justice, every employee who has been charged with any misconduct must be given an opportunity of being heard and explaining his actions before his employer, this opportunity is given to an employee during disciplinary action. The following are, in brief, steps involved in the process of disciplinary action against an employee in India; read more at - http://asklabourproblem.info/disciplinary-action-against-employee/

Very useful inputs were given by the seniors above.However you need to take a prudent decision since there is breach of security. Find out whether you have a security/privacy policy in place which you must have and what acts are defined by it as breach of security. Though the information is not shared with any outsider, investigate into the motives for uploading the details to find out whether it is a mere act of ignorance or an act of excessive jeal or a deliberate one so as to ascertain breach of trust and if so how serious would have been the security breach in terms of money/financial loss or business implications and reputation and image of the organisation Breach of security may be incidental or intentional.The latter involves breach of trust which has considerable bearing on the retention of employee in the organisation.You need to take into consideration all these factors when an act of an employee warrants extreme act of termination to balance the individual interests i.e career and livelihood and that of the organisation.i.e probable financial and business risks.

B.Saikumar

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