Where an employee occupies a senior managerial position and could reasonably be expected to set an impeccable example regarding business conduct such as expense claims, the rule permitting summary dismissal for dishonesty applies rather than the exception for trivial breaches.

Commanders and ACFOs constitute a distinct organisational group for purposes of s.238(4A) because, whilst sharing some operational responsibilities with lower ranks, their qualitatively different senior management duties and their qualitatively smaller amount of time spent on operational incidents distinguishes them from Senior Station Officers and below.

A potential conflict of interest arising from senior management employees being covered by the same agreement as the ranks they manage may be relevant to whether an order would promote fair and efficient bargaining, whether the group was fairly chosen, and whether it is reasonable to make the order.

It is not unreasonable to expect higher standards of supervisory employees than of other employees. A Team Leader role requires the employee to lead by example.

The status of a position comprises not merely its clinical or professional standing but includes remuneration, and maintaining relativity between a head of department's salary and the salaries of positions reporting to that head is important to maintaining the status of that position.

Where senior management is directly involved in contraventions, a respondent cannot expect the court to take a lenient view of such transgressions.

Managerial employees have traditionally not been covered by awards, which is reflected in s.143(7) of the Fair Work Act requiring that modern awards not cover employees who, because of the nature or seniority of their role, have traditionally not been covered by awards.

Working additional hours outside normal work hours is an expected part of the duties of a professional person

An Executive Assistant to the CEO in a health care organization, particularly one handling sensitive information and delegated authority over corporate travel systems, must maintain a high degree of trust, discretion, confidentiality and integrity; breach of such trust through misuse of delegated authority and concealment constitutes serious misconduct.

It is not unreasonable to expect higher standards of supervisory employees.