HR Magazine
A bar manager was unfairly dismissed, a tribunal has ruled, after blowing the whistle about colleagues drinking and using cocaine while on shift.
The tribunal ruled that Nadine Fallone was dismissed as she made a protected disclosure. It awarded her £33,000 in remedies, even though she had not worked at Peckham Levels for more than two years.
“Employers need to acknowledge that employees who make protected disclosures are granted legal protections,” Mary Walker, a partner of law firm Gordons, told HR magazine.
“Dismissing whistleblowers is deemed automatically unfair if the disclosure is the reason, with potentially unlimited compensation being awarded.
“Disclosures must cover specific areas such as criminal activity or other legal breaches such as miscarriages of justice, health and safety failures and environmental damage.
“The use of drugs and alcohol at work can never be acceptable and puts the employer at risk of breaching its own duty of care – not least in a safety critical environment or when dealing with the public.”
https://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/content/news/bar-manager-who-reported-cocaine-use-wins-33k-at-tribunal
