Of course everybody deserves their rights, rich or poor. What we don't know - and won't until all the appeals have been exhausted one way or another - is whether he's actually been deprived of any of his rights.
Whichever way, he's been very stupid and irresponsible and a lot of people, quite...
See my post #166 - I'm no legal eagle either, but I rather expect that Derby County have got very good lawyers!
(And can I just add, before getting caught up in a useless argument, that I honestly couldn't care less either way!) :)
I don't think they need to. If he committed a sackable offence (and I'm saying 'if' because I don't know whether he did or not) - but if he did and they sacked him, that's it. What anybody does to anybody else just doesn't come into it.
And yes, I agree it doesn't cover Derby in any sort of...
If people commit a sackable offence, the employer can still choose whether or not to apply that sanction.
Three people commit a sackable offence, the company can choose to sack all three, or two of them, or just one. If they keep any, they are lucky - the one(s) who actually get sacked are...
It could be that all three committed sackable offences - breach of contract, whatever.
As a result, Derby have sacked Keogh, which presumably they'd be within their rights to do so.
Perhaps they have also decided not to sack the other two on grounds of misconduct - they would have the right to...