"Insubordination" refers to the act of deliberately disobeying or disrespecting a person of authority. It means not following instructions or refusing to comply with orders.
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Citi Sports editor Gary Al - Smith who is in Brazil reports the two have been thrown out for various acts
of insubordination in the last few days.
More than a decade of organizing has resulted in reductions of suspensions by 32 %, arrests and summonses in school by 27 %, and suspensions
for insubordination by 81 % in New York City schools.
Grannis was accused of
insubordination by Paterson's top aide, Larry Schwartz, (who is still with the Cuomo administration, at least for the moment), following the leaking of a memo that was critical of staffing cuts at the DEC..
This season alone he has been suspended by the NCAA for accepting illegal benefits and by coach Lute Olson for
insubordination in practice.
Twenty others were demoted for offences bordering on
gross insubordination, incivility and drunkenness, among others.
In the letter, Kachikwu expressed what he described as an act of
insubordination on the part of Baru in the course of discharging his duties.
The main issue was identified
as insubordination because of not presenting doctors» notes, leaving early and not providing enough notice to plan workload management prior to doctors» appointments.
It will be recalled that Yakubu was sacked by the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan for
alleged insubordination and corruption.
These qualities have been called into question by the Clarkstown Town Board, which has levied numerous
insubordination charges against him, currently being heard by an arbitrator.
The
term insubordination refers to «an employee's intentional refusal to obey an employer's lawful and reasonable order» whereas the term insolence refers to «an employee's derisive, contemptuous and abusive language (and sometimes conduct) generally directed at a superior.»
The DEC has become a Ground Zero in the ongoing battle between the governor and the public employee unions over layoffs ever since its former commissioner, Pete Grannis, was fired for
insubordination after the leaking of a memo he wrote warning further cuts at the agency would render it unable to fulfill its core missions.
Grounds for cause
include insubordination, dishonesty, theft, unjustified absenteeism, repeated and persistent lateness, breach of trust, harassment of another employee and workplace violence.
Mitchell was court martialed in 1925 for
insubordination because he accused Army and Navy leaders of mismanagement when they invested in battle ships not aircraft carriers.
A Canada Revenue Agency employee's moonlighting activities constituted a serious conflict of interest and, along with his
subsequent insubordination, gave the employer sufficient cause to terminate the employee, the Public Service Labour Relations and Employment Board recently confirmed in Cavanagh v Canada Revenue Agency.
HORSE RACING — California - bred GEORGE LEWIS ($ 5.60), ridden by Bill Hartack and owned by Alan Magerman of Philadelphia, won the six - furlong, $ 32,400 Hibiscus Stakes by a length
over Insubordination in 1:09 [1/5].
Some parents fear that children will be too confused or offended, and there is always the fear of future
insubordination from a resentful child.
By contrast, in Louisiana — reflecting the incredible tension over slavery and existential fear of revolt — «it was a capital crime to print or distribute material, or to make a speech or display a sign, or even to have a private conversation, that might spread discontent among the free black population or
insubordination among slaves.»
It ended on an even unhappier note, Manager Vern Rapp suspending Relief Pitcher Al Hrabosky for «
sheer insubordination.»
After a franchise - record 14 wins in 2006, Spanos fired head coach Marty Schottenheimer because of a quick playoff exit and
rumored insubordination.
The party in a letter confirming their suspension said the two candidates breached party's regulations by their acts of
insubordination during the November primaries that elected them.
Maestripieri says
true insubordination is calculated aggression with the goal of changing one's status.
Nonetheless, it's easy to imagine that an actor with a more overt sense of tense energy, such as Hilary Swank or Angelina Jolie, could have burst through Campos's schema to transform the role by way of sheer temperament — of the
very insubordination and uncompromising vision that doomed Christine.
Though experts in educational leadership argue that principals and superintendents - especially those in troubled venues - must be proactive risk - takers who engage in «
creative insubordination,» research has found that «teachers tend to be reluctant risk takers.»
Working to eliminate the principal's suspension as a consequence for first offense insubordination
The school's principal explained that «it didn't feel safe» for them to speak, adding that their union had informed them that their email could be
considered insubordination.
I came of age under the rubric of this story, and Della's headstrong guile continues to fill me with gladness: Who was this hundred - pound mass of
insubordination who stood up to her father, married Pink, and gave birth to six sons and four daughters?
Mass breakouts and instances of
insubordination became common so the court decided to expel the ringleaders to Fitzroy Island.
When the Court examined witness testimony it concluded that although Gordon may have been profane there was no evidence of
direct insubordination.
«High - court majority reaffirms Freshwater's dismissal»: The Columbus Dispatch has an article that begins, «The Ohio Supreme Court will not revisit its 4 - 3 decision that found a Mount Vernon teacher was legally dismissed for
insubordination when he refused to remove religious symbols from his classroom.»
The letter concluded by stating that the director expected a written response on or before May 2, 2008, confirming the outside activities had stopped, and that if he did not receive such a response by that date, he would consider Cavanagh to remain in a conflict of interest situation and committing an act of
insubordination warranting discipline up to and including termination.
Conduct amounting to
insubordination sufficient to establish cause for dismissal was described half a century ago by Lord Evershed in the oft - cited decision of Laws v. London Chronicle (Indicator Newspapers), Ltd., [1959] 2 All E.R. 285 at 287 (Eng.
Ms. Partridge's employer provided a number of reasons for firing her, including that she demanded that her office hours be changed, harassed coworkers and management,
displayed insubordination, solicited Botony's employees or patients for the purpose of establishing a competing business, and removed one or two day sheets from the office, which contained confidential patient information.
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