Going to the pub while off work sick is not a sackable offence, judge rules
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dailystar.co.ukMetro reports.Company heads called Colin who said he “had been in bed all day with his chest”.They summoned him to a meeting with contracts manager Shaun Johnson who told him: “Surely if you had been unfit for work and on antibiotics, you shouldn’t be in the pub.”Colin’s pleas that he hadn’t been to the pub in a long time and saw nothing wrong with what he did were ignored by bosses.They fired him in July last year for dishonesty and breaching the company’s rules.But a judge, Andrea Pitt, pointed out the rules did not specifically ban workers from socialising when off ill.She said: “There is nothing in the disciplinary procedure prohibiting an employee from acting in this way.“[Debmat Surfacing] made a gross assumption, without evidence,.
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