City bin men win unfair dismissal case.FOUR Liverpool bin men who claimed they were sacked for collecting too much rubbish have won their unfair dismissal unfair dismissal n → despido improcedente unfair dismissal n → licenciement abusif unfair dismissal unfair n → case. The workers were photographed taking bags of rubbish out of a pub when they were employed to remove household waste only. But Frank Harty,48,of Walton, Peter Fairclough, 51,of Norris Green History Norris Green is a large housing estate and council ward in Liverpool, England comprising some 1,500 dwellings, it is locally known as "Noggsy". It was built in the 1920s on land donated to the city by Lord Derby, who was at the time resident at nearby Knowsley , Billy Hopewell, 54,of Dingle, and Ian Milner, 54,of Fairfield, claimed they were unfairly dismissed and took Liverpool council contractors Onyx to an employment tribunal Employment Tribunals are inferior courts in Great Britain which have statutory jurisdiction to hear many kinds of disputes between employers and employees. The most common disputes being concerned with unfair dismissal and discrimination. . Yesterday the tribunal ruled in the men's favour. Father-of-three Mr Hopewell said: ``All of our families have suffered from the stress the case has caused and we cannot get jobs because of what's happened. ``We are relieved to have won but we should never have been sacked.'' The hearing was told how the men had been fired in May last year after collecting rubbish from flats above the Ye Olde House At Home pub in Aigburth Vale. In return they were allowed to use the toilet, the tribunal heard. They denied collecting glass bottles, which Onyx claim made a crashing noise when put in the bin wagon. Pictures taken by ``client monitors'' did not prove the accusations and key witnesses were not interviewed early enough, the court ruled. A compensation settlement was not being disclosed. |
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