Dismissal advice

mooyer

Hi all, fist post here so be gentle.

Just after a bit of advice really.

Currently I am unemployed after been laid off about 7 months ago from a car dealership. I was a service advisor in the dealership.

I had gone through a period of 3 months probation when I first started and was offered a full time contract after 3 months with no time periods etc.

I had a few issues with my job, which I believed were fair; it was not something that I had done before. I never received any sort of verbal or written warning. There were a few complaints from customers, but no different than that of my colleagues.

However, things started to go downhill in around July last year. My relationship with the department manager deteriorated rapidly. I felt that I was been treated differently to my colleagues.

I felt under valued in the role, just little things that gripe over a period of time. To compound the situation I was not given any formal training except 3 days of systems training from one of my colleagues when I first started, and eventhough I had asked this was never given, unlike it was to my colleagues.

6 weeks before I left, there was an issue with myself and a number of my colleague losing money for the department. It evolved from paying for courtesy cars for customers, and because the work had taken longer than it should have done we could not claim the cost back from the manufacturer.

Eventhough I was not the only person to cause this loss, I had my bonus taken away from me for that month, and I was the only person this happened to. Because of this I made a formal complaint against my manager to the Dealer Principal as i thought i was been victimised

Keep the story going he went on sick for an operation and on holiday, and I hadn't heard anything about my complaint, and the week before I left I was off sick too as I had caught a bug.

I went back to work on the Friday, and out of the blue in the late afternoon I was called into his office by the assistant manager for a meeting. He had a letter from a customer about a back ordered part, and he was perplexed about my period of illness and that he was giving me 4 weeks notice of my termination of employment and I should leave immediately. He said that because it was in my first year of employment then they could do this, but when I looked through my contract I could find no mention of this.

I was shocked, as I'm sure you can imagine. This was the beginning of October and I have been out of work since. Is it too late to do anything about it??

Treacle1983

You have the right to request a tribunal.

Call him and ask how to escalate the issue further - they should have a process in place.

CAB are brilliant at helping sort out what questions to ask and how to deal with it all - see them.

LinasPilibaitisisbatman

Why bother,

Whether the OP agrees or not there are clear examples of gross misconduct and thus he could well be dismissed if they so wished. Giving him 4 weeks paid notice is a good result in this case.

Treacle1983

Hmm - again don't agree with last poster.

I would ignore them - as they have posted quite negatively on a lot of threads.

It's always worth taking it through the official routes, there are procedures in place that should have been followed.

It sounds like you didn't get adequate training, your complaint wasn't acknowledged properly, and if you had no verbal or writen warnings then you shouldn't really have been given the boot - unless gross misconduct - which I don't think it was...

glossgal

As much as I feel for the OP, they are out of time to make a tribunal claim-3 months.

Even if they weren't you can be sacked for ANY REASON under one years service unless it's to do with sex/race/being in a union/pregnancy etc. As long as you've been paid up, better to chalk it up to experience and move on.

ohreally

Treacle1983 wrote: »

You have the right to request a tribunal.

How so?

Having left 7 months ago grievence and tribunal complaints would be time barred.