Key legal question
Whether the dismissal of the municipal employee for grave reasons under Art. 97 of the personnel statute was lawful.
Extracted holding
The dismissal was lawful because the employee's persistent disruptive conduct, refusal to acknowledge responsibility, and the resulting breakdown of trust constituted grave reasons.
Extracted reasoning
The court accepted the cantonally established pattern of insulting and insubordinate behavior, noted that earlier warnings did not exhaust the employer's ability to rely on the conduct later, and held that the employee was not ready to resume work constructively after medical leave.