My wife dismissed for gross misconduct

mrs.unfair

I worked for her company for 4 months under a “security document” (NDA) during the course of my work I asked my wife to provided the title fields to a spreadsheet (not any content) for a call logging system her company use with a view to making into a sql database. During the course of my work with her company we had only sent each other about 10 emails all of which where personal along the lines of “can you collect the children”, having completed my remit at the end of May and handed off the project my wife retuned home from work last week (Aug) with a disciplinary hearing notice for “breach of security” and releasing information into the public domain i.e. me.
The Company are saying that the information was confidential and not in the public domain until she breached the security policy. The field headings are all over the internet for their business profession OK all be it not in the same order. They have stated in the dismissal letter that they have concerns that other confidential information is being passed verbally. She already worked for the company when they actively pursed me to come in on a sub contractor basis in the full knowledge that we were husband and wife, this was never raised as an issue nor were any protocols or procedures put into place for this.
As she does not meet the 2 year qualifying period to be able to bring an unfair dismissal case the company obviously feel that they will never have to justify their actions and can be as unreasonable as they wish and destroy her chances of every getting another job with a gross misconduct charge on her employment record as well as some extremely dodgy witness statements which can easily be refuted with correspondence emailed from the Company which proves that they have distorted the facts.

• Wife has been employed 12 months
• Only title fields sent in email
• Both signed under company security document

Yes we have come to the conclusions that they wish to severe all association between ourselves and the company, they have a rather over zealous IT guy who has obviously a grudge to bear with me.

[SIZE=+0]Any body have ideas on a course of action here please
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Missme

OP, they can dosmiss for whatever because her employment started after the 2 year rule came in.

What does "under a “security document” (NDA) " mean?

Twopints

NDA = Non-Disclosure Agreement

Missme

Thanks Twopints.

OP who were you working under? I'm assuming it wasn't your wife.

mrs.unfair

Missme: directly to her boss, and communication with other staff members as well.

Missme

All sounds incredibly spurious so I'd wonder if it really has anything to do with you.

They may sack within the usual constaints and they have, if I read correctly, or they will. Why they would choose to tarnish someone's work history without good cause..?? Who did she p'off?

mrs.unfair

Actually we think it’s the IT guy that feels threatened, don’t know why as I have hand off the project to the company and he trawled through emails looking for something.


Which he has done before, we have found out and it went to ET and they lost. My wife has an untarnished work record across the board sickness etc. She has also covered other staff at very short notice as well.

So to prove his point to other staff, in fact no other member of staff felt comfortable to attend as her note taker. And sadly she is not a union member