Fair dismissals

• Incapable of doing the job - lateness, absenteeism, constant absence through illness
• not qualified to do the job - lying on your cv
• incompetence - failing to meet standards of job - football manager who loses every match/not meeting performance targets
• misconduct - engaging in illegal or inappropriate activity in the workplace - fighting, stealing, substance abuse
• redundancies - if firm is going through a bad time and cannot afford to keep staff
• contravening the law - eg. maintaining a full licence as a driver