PwC may have run into problems sanctioning some of the partners it believed were involved in its tax leaks scandal, but professional services firms can at least fire those who have brought their employer into disrepute in their personal lives.
That’s the upshot of a salacious case this week, in which the ACT Supreme Court ruled that EY had the right to sack former partner Leonard Joseph Nicita after he got into a fight at a bar outside work hours.
