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Should my boyfriend report the business that fired him?
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HaruFlower
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Hi,
I was hoping to get some advice on what I believe is an unfair dismissal and a less than legal business, very sorry if this is not the right place to post, but I’m not really sure where to go for advice.
Today my boyfriend was fired from a cleaning job he had only been working at for a few weeks. It was the first time the business had employed a cleaner and they failed to provide adequate cleaning supplies, nevertheless as an experienced cleaner he worked his socks off with what he could scrape together, getting down on his hands and knees to clean floors and cleaning toilets etc with no gloves. His employers seemed quite friendly and fairly flexible about the days he worked, but then he asked about giving them his national insurance number, yesterday he gave it to them, and today he was fired at the start of his shift. When asked, the reasons cited for his dismissal were that he didn’t clean behind the fridge (which was impossible for him to get behind anyway), that he left the cardboard inner of a toilet roll on the floor in the toilet (ok, this was definitely his mistake, but it only happened on that one occasion), and that there was rubbish around the bin in the kitchen (which had collected there since his last shift). As far as he was concerned they had been happy with his work up until then, and they had certainly never made any complaints. He never had any payslips and on his dismissal he was given the money he was owed cash-in-hand.
My boyfriend doesn’t realistically expect anything more from them, as galling as his dismissal was, but we are unsure whether we should report them anyway as the whole thing was rather fishy. Also this business employs a lot of foreign workers, and is constantly advertising for new employees; our suspicion is that things are not all above board. My question is should we report this business, and if so, who do we report them to?
As a side note, they had a big rat problem, but their business was to clean laundry for hotels, I can’t help wonder what hotels use them!
I was hoping to get some advice on what I believe is an unfair dismissal and a less than legal business, very sorry if this is not the right place to post, but I’m not really sure where to go for advice.
Today my boyfriend was fired from a cleaning job he had only been working at for a few weeks. It was the first time the business had employed a cleaner and they failed to provide adequate cleaning supplies, nevertheless as an experienced cleaner he worked his socks off with what he could scrape together, getting down on his hands and knees to clean floors and cleaning toilets etc with no gloves. His employers seemed quite friendly and fairly flexible about the days he worked, but then he asked about giving them his national insurance number, yesterday he gave it to them, and today he was fired at the start of his shift. When asked, the reasons cited for his dismissal were that he didn’t clean behind the fridge (which was impossible for him to get behind anyway), that he left the cardboard inner of a toilet roll on the floor in the toilet (ok, this was definitely his mistake, but it only happened on that one occasion), and that there was rubbish around the bin in the kitchen (which had collected there since his last shift). As far as he was concerned they had been happy with his work up until then, and they had certainly never made any complaints. He never had any payslips and on his dismissal he was given the money he was owed cash-in-hand.
My boyfriend doesn’t realistically expect anything more from them, as galling as his dismissal was, but we are unsure whether we should report them anyway as the whole thing was rather fishy. Also this business employs a lot of foreign workers, and is constantly advertising for new employees; our suspicion is that things are not all above board. My question is should we report this business, and if so, who do we report them to?
As a side note, they had a big rat problem, but their business was to clean laundry for hotels, I can’t help wonder what hotels use them!
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He cleaned toilets etc with no gloves, could have bought some.
What exactly do you suspect they need to be reported for ?
Do you or your boyfriend have anything concrete any laws have been broken ?0 -
Employer is clearly not paying the employer's NIC if they do not bother collecting his NI no. Did they make tax and NI deductions from the wages received?No free lunch, and no free laptop
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He cleaned toilets etc with no gloves, could have bought some.
What exactly do you suspect they need to be reported for ?
Do you or your boyfriend have anything concrete any laws have been broken ?
Legal right to a written statement of what he has been paid and what has been deducted.
No deductions obviously, which is illegal.
I imagine they haven't paid him for accrued annual leave either.
I'd report them.“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.” - P.G. Wodehouse0
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