An employee lost an unfair dismissal claim after leaving work early without permission to attend a Bruce Springsteen concert, with an employment tribunal siding with her employer's decision to sack her. The case underscores the risks employees face when taking unauthorised time off work, even for one-off events, and confirms employers' latitude to enforce attendance policies through dismissal.

The tribunal examined the circumstances of the woman's departure from her job to see the concert and concluded that her employer had acted fairly in dismissing her. Details of her length of service, the specific policy she breached, and the tribunal's full reasoning were central to the ruling, which went against the claimant.