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Sacked drivers win
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• Two drivers
sacked by GranAA tham Road Ser
vices for alleged ly going home after saying they were staying with their vehicles, have won claims for unfair dismissal. But in adjourning for compensation to be agreed, Lincoln industrial tribunal said the drivers were 50% at fault.
For the company, it was alleged that drivers D N Hall and T J Riley had telephoned implying that they were with their lorries in Peterborough when they were in fact at home. They had left charts in their tachographs, when they should have been removed; the charts were removed by another person at 18:00hrs. The time sheets submitted by the two men claimed a full
day's work which they had not done, and claims for a night out subsistence allowance.
Holding the dismissals to be unfair, the tribunal said that both men were of long service, Hall having been with the company for 17 years and Riley for 12 years. It appeared that under the company's guarantee procedure they would in any case have been paid for a full day's work and would have been entitled to their night-out subsistence allowance.
Nevertheless, it appeared that "Spanish practices" had grown up over the years, whereby drivers left their lorries in depots where they knew they would be unloaded.
No evidence had been presented that the drivers had instructed others to remove their tachograph charts.