{
  "id": 16698289,
  "title": "Director of PR firm sacked for secretly recording internal meeting loses wrongful dismissal claim",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/director-of-pr-firm-sacked-for-secretly-recording-internal-meeting",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-27T02:43:58.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Business Times - Singapore",
    "slug": "the-business-times-singapore",
    "url": "https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/singapore/director-pr-firm-sacked-secretly-recording-internal-meeting-loses-wrongful-dismissal-claim"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A former managing director of a public relations firm was fired from her position while she was still on her three-month notice period, after she was accused of secretly recording an internal company meeting. The firm's president discovered her covert recording on March 3rd, during a routine weekly business meeting where the claimant had been addressing allegations of her workplace mistakes. Following the incident, the company gave her several warnings about her behavior, despite her claim that she had merely intended to record the meeting for note-taking purposes. The court ruled in favor of the employer, stating that her act of recording the meeting without consent violated confidentiality standards and constituted misconduct that justified immediate dismissal.",
  "summary": "The claimant has said the firm used the incident to deprive her of notice period salary",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Straits Times",
        "title": "Director of PR firm sacked for secretly recording internal meeting loses wrongful dismissal claim",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/director-of-pr-firm-sacked-for-secretly-recording-internal-meeting",
        "published": "2026-10-26T10:00:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}