Case of woman sacked by ex-lover gets national attention
16 July 2008
Sheffield employment law expert secures tribunal win for Rotherham woman.
Last week we proudly announced that Liam Kenealy from Ashton Morton Slack's employment team had secured £11,000 of compensation following her unfair dismissal from Approved Financial Solutions Ltd.
The tribunal lasted for a total of 2 days and the verdict reached was that although there was a redundancy situation, the process undertaken by AFS was unfair and that 1 of the directors of AFS had been biased in his assessment of Janine & the other candidate for redundancy. Janine was therefore awarded a total of £10,963 in compensation.
Liam Kenealy, employment solicitor at Ashton Morton Slack who prepared the case against AFS commented "I'm delighted for Janine. Even though the financial industry is going through tough times at the moment companies still need to be fair and follow a proper procedure when carrying out redundancies and do their utmost to prevent the loss of jobs. In Janine's situation this just was not the case and I am pleased the Tribunal saw it that way too."
In these worsening economic times many of the national press have picked up the story to show that no matter how harse trading conditions are a business cannot ignore best practice and employment regulations.
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