Employers should take action if an employee is a danger to themselves and their customers. To do this the employer should have clear guidelines on what qualifications a new employee should have prior to joining a company. ie focus on piloting skills not the other bollocks that seems to go on in interviews these days.
Once someone is employed the employer then is responsible to provide adequate training to give the employee a reasonable chance of success. If there is a problem then a clear outline of what is expected should be delivered to the employee.
The employee was given 3 training flights and a check ride to come up to speed. But after the first of these flights the employee was dismissed for serious mis-conduct. Had the employer allowed the employee to complete the 3 flights and the check and if the employee had failed that check then the dismissal would have been justified.
It is my understanding that serious mis-conduct dismissals are for single incidents such as punching out another member of staff, taking drugs or things like that.
The mistakes made on the training flight in question were not in the opinion of the authority serious mis-conduct and because they were mistakes that could be expected of any person under going training.
I hope every employer learns from this and changes their selection and training process to protect themselves from a similiar fate. At the same time it is also the responsibility the pilots to get themselves up to speed and to stay as current as possible because following this discission employers will be looking for higher standards from new staff. If they do not find them then wages will go down to reflect the extra training required to get them up to standard. Or worst still bonding will become common place in GA!!!!!!!!!