Unfair Dismissal in Diary

Aug. 10, 2015, 7:51 a.m.
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Thanks to everyone who suggested that Jay takes his employers to a tribunal. I didn’t think he would get anywhere as they’ve been very sneaky and used all the legal loopholes to go about it. I also didn’t think he would have the energy to bother as well as looking for a new job, but I mentioned it to him anyway as he’s still fired up on anger and he’s found this on the CAB website:

Unfair dismissal
Your employer might claim that you’re redundant, when in fact they have unfairly dismissed you. This may be so they don’t have to pay you compensation for unfair dismissal. You should look carefully at the circumstances surrounding your dismissal to make sure that you are really being made redundant.
The following situations are examples of where the real reason for your dismissal might not be redundancy:
1) your employer has recently taken on other people. This could mean that there has not been a reduction in the amount of work to be done
2) you’re the only person being made redundant, or one of only a few in a large company. This might be a sign that the type of work you do is still needed

(From his email to me) Point 1 – John has recently been employed part time in the sales office and Lee is moving from a part time to full time member of the sales office.
Point 2 – The type of work I do is still needed as I don’t just do marketing I also do sales admin.

My addition to point 2 - They claim the reason for redundancy is that they think marketing should be a part time role. If he is already only doing it part time, and the NEW person will also be doing it part time, then there has been no reduction in the time being spent on marketing. Their argument is defunct.

This is exactly what we’re looking for and fits his situation perfectly, so he’s going to contact them. Eeeeexcellent /Mr. Burns

Waterfire ⋅ August 10, 2015

GOOD. I hope the fuckers get what's coming to them! Poor Jay.

Tuesday's Child ⋅ August 10, 2015

Poor Jay. I hope he takes them. James was dismissed unfairly a few years ago, and like you say above, the energy involved in going through with it was too much for him when he was already depressed. He called EHO on their kitchen instead, mwahahaha.