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Payout for driver who was made to look a fool
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A BLOXWICH, Walsall truck driver has been awarded more than £1.200 after alleging that his boss had made him "look a fool" and had withheld payment for eight days' work.
David Hipwood was awarded the payout at a Birmingham Employment Tribunal case he brought against DT Baugh Transport in Cannock, Staffs.
Hipwood told the Tribunal that DT Baugh's boss, David Baugh, offered him 0,500 a month to drive heavy trucks. Hipwood said he worked 12-hour days and had to drive to a Tarmac site at Burton on Trent, Staffs every day to pick up a load. But he alleged that when he arrived, Baugh had failed to phone Tarmac and provide the registration number of his vehicle in accordance with the regulations.
"This happened several times and I was made to look a fool," Hipwood told the Tribunal." It was only after I contacted Mr Baugh that something was done and I could carry on with my job."
Hipwood said that after failing to receive his wages after eight days and several unsuccessful attempts to contact 13augh, he drove the vehicle to the firm's site at Cannock, handed in his keys and left his job in protest.
"When I sent a recorded-delivety letter of grievance to the firm, it refused to accept it," he said.
Baugh did not attend the hearing but Tribunal chairman David Dimbvlow said he had received a letter from him claiming that because Hipwood had not turned up for work on the Monday he had lost 000 on a contract.
At the end of the hearing Dimbylow told Hipwood:-We are awarding you a total of 11,224 which includes your missing wages and compensation for the firm's failure to receive the grievance letter."