Managing defector's claim is 'frivolous'
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.ANSPORT manager who started to run a company in competiwith his employers was legally sacked, according to a Grimsby stria! Tribunal, and was ordered to pay costs.
le Tribunal heard that David 11 Stanley's managing direc t Freight Services Ltd found ils in a briefcase which indid involvement with a corn ig and dismissed in December.
r Stanley's behaviour, irding to the Tribunal, was -ely inconsistent with the is of his contract, and it said claim for unfair dismissal pensation was frivolous.
s managing director — a Mr ,t — had been suspicious .it his activities for some and found that invoices for impany — Moorcroft Freight — were in Mr Stanley's ing, and that they were addressed to Freight Services customers.
When interviewed, Mr Stanley was told that his managing director knew the registered office of Moorcroft Freight was Mr Stanley's home, and that one of the invoices indicated that the phone number of Moorcroft was the same as Mr Stanley's.
Mr Stanley initially denied that he was involved in running the new company, and said the directors were his wife and brother.
He admitted that he planned to resign at the end of December and start working for the company in January. When challenged about the handwriting on the invoices, Mr Stanley said he was helping other people with their paperwork, as he had done for owner-drivers before.
Mr West said he thought this story specious, and that Mr Stanley was in fact involved in running Moorcroft. The Tribunal concluded that the decision to dismiss Mr Stanley was the only reasonable one in the circumstances.