Help please

MidlandYid

Just after some advice if anyone is able to help.

Effectively, i relocated to the North and started a new job, my wife was expecting our first baby and after 2 weeks in my job i was informed that as the work was not arriving as anticipated they may have to let me go. Now given this situation i enquired as to whether my old job(in the Courtservice) was available at my local court. Now my employers then after then found this email and dismissed me for gross misconduct stating that i had applied for a job whilst in their employ. Now, i never actually recieved a copy of the employee's handbook, i was emailed the file but was never able to open it even after asking 3 times to have adobe loaded onto my system, so i was unaware that this would constitute misconduct.

This happened at the end of may and i still haven't received my wages, i was assured at the begining of june that i would have them in 2 weeks, which has now passed, where do i stand with this, am i entitled to statutory interest for them having withheld my wages?

I do apologise for the length of this so i hope if you have read it, you're still awake.

Thanks in advance.

LittleVoice

Have you read the handbook now?
Is this about using the organisations email system for private correspondence?
Hardly gross misconduct to apply for work while in work. If all employers thought it was, then everyone would be committing gross misconduct when moving from one employer to another!
Even it were gross misconduct, they should pay you for the time you worked.
Did they go through proper disciplinary procedure with you?

Savvy_Sue

You might find the ACAS site worth looking at. Sounds astonishing!