Calling your boss a ‘dickhead’ is not a sackable offence, a tribunal has ruled.

Kerrie Herbert has won almost £30,000 in compensation after she was found to have been unfairly dismissed for throwing the insult at her manager and another director.

While the employment judge called the insults ‘inappropriate and regrettable’, she concluded they don’t necessarily amount to gross misconduct, especially if said ‘in the heat of the moment’.

Employment judge Sonia Boyes ruled the scaffolding and brickwork company Ms Herbert worked for had not ‘acted reasonably in all the circumstances in treating [her] conduct as a sufficient reason to dismiss her’.

The hearing heard Ms Herbert started her £40,000-a-year role at Northampton firm Main Group Services in October 2018.

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