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Operator told to repay driver
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been ordered by a Liverpool Industrial Tribunal to repay £221.26 deducted from a driver's wages for an alleged over-payment of expenses.
Arthur Charleson claimed the company had unlawfully deducted the money when he was dismissed last November. He was employed between 21 October and 11 November, driving between the UK and Spain. He said that the first trip he made was to Burgas; he was given a sum of money for his personal expenses, which he did not need to account for, and a sum for
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diesel, tolls and incidental costs which he had to account for. He received £20 for himself, 30,000 pesetas and 130 francs.
The company's transport manager, John Getka, said Charleson would have received an additional £100 for his own expenses. The money was given to him by the company's Portsmouth agent.
The Tribunal accepted Charleson's account of the trip, and that on his return he had accounted for the expenditure he had incurred (about 2148.50) virtually exhausting the currency he had been issued with.
Charleson said he had made another trip to Madrid and Almeira. He received £630 by way of expenses; £100 for personal use, £100 for his codriver's personal use, and £430 for diesel, and tolls. On his return he gave the company's Portsmouth agent receipts which fully accounted for the expenditure incurred on the trip, which more or less exhausted the £430.
Getka maintained that Charleson had not submitted any receipts. On his return from that trip, Charleson was accused of a disciplinary offence which ultimately led to his dismissal. Getka said that the amount claimed was above average for vehicles making that trip, but agreed it would depend on how much fuel there was in the tank to start with.