.£42 award for redundant driver
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• Redundancy pay of £42, based on two years' service with a North Westmorland firm, was awarded to a lorry driver, Thomas Leslie Clark, of Castle Drive, Penrith, by an Industrial Tribunal in Carlisle last week.
Making the award against Edenhall Ready Mixed Concrete Ltd of Shap, the Tribunal chairman, Sir John Ainley, said it was clear the applicant had been dismissed because he became redundant when a new system of owner-drivers was introduced and he was not offered any other job with the firm, Mr Clark said he worked for the firm from 1969 to early this year when he was asked to become an owner-driver but he said he was not interested. Later he was offered an internal job with a Shap limeworks but after two months he left that firm for British Rail but became unemployed last month.
The transport manager for Edenhall Ready Mixed Concrete, Mr T. Craggs, said Mr Clark was never dismissed by them and was not told his contract was ended. He asked the limeworks to give the applicant a job and the Edenhalt firm continued to pay him for the first four of the eight weeks he stayed with the limeworks.