Drivers win case
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• Three drivers who turned down offers of alternative employment when made redundant by Industrial Waste Disposals (Sheffield) have been awarded redundancy payments totalling £2,343.50 by Sheffield industrial tribunal.
The tribunal was told that Graham Martin, Ronnie Cutler and Gary Milnes had been dismissed on June 30 when the contract on which they were working came to an end. On June 19 they were offered continued employment after June 30 doing similar work, but at basic rates without the same opportunities for overtime. The three men refused that offer as they had all obtained other work.
The notice and offer came only just over a working week before their jobs were to terminate and because of the confidential nature of the contract that would have formed the basis of their work after June, the company had to be a little vague in its description. That left the three men with a degree of uncertainty as to their future.
For those reasons, said the tribunal, it did not feel that the three men were unreasonable in refusing the offers of alternative employment. They were therefore entitled to redundancy payments. Martin was awarded £1,253.50, Cutler £327 and Milnes £763.