Invoice sacking was not fair
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• Personnel Hygiene Services has been ordered to pay £3,279.14 compensation to an assistant transport manager sacked because of delays in passing invoices for payment.
A Birmingham industrial tribunal awarded Philip Monks £2,894.54 compensation for unfair dismissal and £384.60 for the company's failure to provide written reasons for his dismissal.
Evidence was given that Monks was responsible for HGV
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tests and controlling the maintenance and repair work for a fleet of 500 vehicles. The transport manager, a Miss MacDonald, had been dissatisfied for some time about delays in passing invoices for payment to the company's accounts department at Caerphilly.
Monks maintained that delays in submitting invoices for payment had not been brought to his attention as significant.
The tribunal said that though Monks must have known that MacDonald wanted the invoices to be dealt with more promptly, he was never warned that his job would be in jeopardy if he did not improve. There had been a backlog when Monks took over and he had not appreciated the need for urgency with the invoices, as he knew there was a delay in payment after they reached the company's accounts department.
In view of the lack of discussion and warning, the tribunal did not consider that Monks could be said to have caused or contributed to his dismissal.