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Employee Sacked For Representing Colleagues In Tribunal Awarded £31,000

A former employee of global information services company Williams Lea has been awarded £31,000 for unfair dismissal at a Stratford Employment Tribunal after she supported colleagues in a previous tribunal to do with mishandled redundancies.

This brings the total amount paid out by the company for its mishandling of staff redundancies in 2003 to over £200,000.

Suzanne Campbell claimed she was unfairly dismissed from the graphic department at the Morgan Stanley offices at Canary Wharf after she agreed to represent her former colleagues in a tribunal which took place in June 2005. The company conceded liability for the claims.

Willams Lea, which provides outsourcing services to Morgan Stanley, was forced to pay out over £170,000 to 29 employees last year after a tribunal ruled it had failed to consult them about redundancies.

The company was ordered to pay 80-day protective awards totalling £144,726 to all the former graphic department staff and £30,000 in unfair dismissal claims brought by nine of the sacked employees.

It was also found that the company had concealed the names and number of redundancies from staff representatives, despite having drawn up a list of employees due to be made redundant over a month before announcing the job cuts.

Under the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, companies who are planning to dismiss more than 20 employees must consult with them within 30 days of the redundancies taking effect. If a company fails to consult with staff over impending redundancies, employees can apply for a protective award.

The tribunal in 2005 ruled that Williams Lea had only begun consulting staff three days after the last of the redundancy notices had been sent out.

Source : http://www.workplacelaw.net/

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