Tribunal lakes dim view on dismissal
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A DRIVER whose lorry was run into by a motorcyclist after he took his vehicle home without permission and parked it without lights was found by an Industrial Tribunal last week to have been unfairly dismissed.
They adjourned their decision on the amount of compensation for Mr Shaun Yates, of the caravan Site, Bilsthorpe.
Mr Albert McWhinney, a director of Forest Contractors Ltd, of West Bridgford, Nottingham, said that the police were called because the motorcyclist had suffered facial injuries, He also claimed that Mr Yates had been absent from work on 19 occasions and had frequently been more than an hour late for work.
He told the tribunal that Mr Yates used to take the keys of his lorry home so that no one else could use it.
Mr Yates said he was absent from work only on seven working days, and that all the other absences were in respect of Saturday mornings, and he claimed that this lateness was due to car trouble.
On the night of the accident he said he had taken the lorry home because his car was low on petrol and he could not afford to buy any. He only left the lorry on the road for two minutes to get newspaper to nrotect the windscreen.