An employee’s toxic behavior can become a legal reason for dismissal, although there is no such term in the Labor Code of the Russian Federation. Evgenia Jankina, Director of the Organizational Development Department of Roskachistvo, spoke about this.
According to the expert, although an employer cannot terminate a contract with someone simply because of “toxicity,” it has the right to use other pressure tools. If a company adopts corporate rules with clear ethical standards, their systematic violation is equivalent to neglecting internal business regulations.
Jankina explained that a disciplinary penalty is usually imposed on an employee for showing toxicity. If there are repeated episodes of this behavior, the employer has a legal basis to terminate cooperation due to repeated failure to fulfill official duties.
The specialist noted that Russian legislation clearly defines the conditions that allow a company to fire an employee on its own. Among them are serious violations of discipline, absenteeism, revealing confidential information and being drunk.
“In the case of repeat violations, there is a legal basis for dismissal for repeated failure to perform job duties,” Jankina says. Lenta.ru.
Olga Chirikova, senior lecturer at the Department of Civil Law Disciplines at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, explained the procedure for dismissing an employee on his own initiative.