Key legal question
Whether the teacher's dismissal violated the right to be heard because he was not given full access to the file and adequate time to respond before termination.
Extracted holding
Yes. The employer decided on the dismissal without full disclosure of the decisive allegations and granted only about 24 hours to respond, which was not enough to allow meaningful participation.
Extracted reasoning
The decisive facts and authorship of the complaint letter were withheld, the teacher was misled about the source of the allegations, and the short deadline prevented consultation, review, and a proper statement before the dismissal was issued.