■ Iehicle sold so iriver redundant
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DRIVER who gave in his tice after refusing alternve employment offered folving the sale of his vehicle his employer was held to be lundant by a Birmingham lustrial Tribunal.
['he Tribunal ruled that Mr Mason, a driver with 20 trs' service with Platt Malble Castings Ltd, had not ed unreasonably in handing his notice and he was entitto 251/2 weeks redundancy iment.
Evidence that in January the Tipany was taken over and a zision was taken to use tside haulage for its trans needs was heard.
ks a consequence the licle was sold on April 5. e company tried to find Mr ison alternative emyment although no specific er of a job was ever made. -lowever he was asked to do bus jobs about the factory ntually being asked to try a ) involving clearing a .tern shop.
VIr Mason said he would .e it a try but he found it suitable, the dusty at'sphere being bad for him medical reasons. As a ret he handed in his notice on ril 29.
n its decision the tribunal d it thought the company d continued Mr Masons employment on terms that were different on those on which he had previously been engaged in that there was no longer any employment for him as an hgv driver. They also felt that he had given the new term a trial period.
A trial period had to be four weeks beginning with the date on which the employee started work on the new job.
In this case there was no question of any longer period having been agreed and during the trial period Mr Mason gave his notice in.
Therefore he must be treated as having been dismissed on the date on which his employment as an hgv driver came to an end.