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May 14th, 2012
Case Review: Driver of multi-millionaire wins claim for unfair dismissal
In what has become known as the “give a dog a bone” employment case, Ivor James, aged 60, was a driver for multi-millionaire Raymond Mould in Gloucestershire. Mr James was sacked during a 12-minute telephone call from his employer, after he fed a piece of gristle to Mr Mould’s Labrador. He was informed that a [...]
May 4th, 2012
Employers potentially responsible for Facebook comments made by their staff
Employees should be wary about their use of social media sites such as Facebook, following a recent decision by a tribunal in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Whilst this judgement is not binding on UK employment tribunals (as it was made by a Northern Ireland industrial tribunal) it is an interesting case and useful guidance for similar [...]
May 2nd, 2012
Case Review: Blinded IRA victim wins £200k compensation for bullying at work
Andrew Bull, 48, a former soldier blinded by an IRA bomb in Northern Ireland in 1983, has been awarded £200,000 in compensation by an employment tribunal after it agreed that he had been bullied at work. The Cardiff tribunal found against Blaenau Gwent council, and ruled that Mr Bull had been bullied and harassed, and [...]
April 29th, 2012
Case Review: Sainsbury’s worker sacked for making quick dash to his car
A baker employed by Sainsbury’s in the West Midlands was sacked from his job after 11 years’ service, for leaving his post for less than two minutes. Sainsbury’s told an employment tribunal in Birmingham that Steven Tyler had left the store without permission, and that they had a strict policy about employees leaving the premises [...]
April 29th, 2012
Case Review: Aggrieved Staffordshire worker wins £6,835 tribunal payout
Sally Massey, a management accountant for an electrical firm in Staffordshire, won her unfair dismissal claim against her former employer. She claimed she was the only employee not to be offered new employment by a new company on the same site, when the former firm had shut down. An employment tribunal heard that the electrical [...]
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