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refusing work
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• An agency driver who refused to make a delivery because he felt too tired, even though he could legally do the job within his existing hours, has beer banned from working for Sainsbury's.
Hertfordshire-based Tim Robinson, who drives for Bishops Stortford agency Crown Services (UK), says the ban on driving on Crown's Sainsbury contract was imposed by Sainsbury transport bosses following an initial ban of six weeks. h-le says this has cost him 22,000 in lost earnings.
"I had just returned to the Sainsbury's depot at Buntingford after completing a six-and-a-half-hour delivery on 27 April when I was asked by the transport depot there to do another short delivery to Enfield," he explains. "I told them I couldn't as I was feeling knackered." There is no suggestion that the extra journey was in any way illegal.
He says that his attempts to appeal against the temporary ban fell on deaf ears. Crown Services (UK) told him that its drivers on the Sainsbury's contract must carry out "longer hours when required as long as ft falls within tacho rules and regulations". Gary McGhie, transport manager at Sainsbury's Buntingford depot, says he is "not prepared to discuss the ins and outs of the case". "It is so annoying— what would have happened if I had fallen asleep on that trip?" says Robinson. However, he does not plan to fight the ban because "that would cause even more trouble".