Forgive me for being a nosey bugger but whats happened like?

Chip, im no solicitor but my wife was sacked at the end of 2006 and won her claim against the company. How long have you worked there? Have you been given any previous warnings? she ended up paying 480 quid in solicitors fees which i think was pretty good.

Sorry to hear that Chip..dunno if this will help http://www.compactlaw.co.uk/monster/empq9.html

if i knew more details i could try and get info from my union of which im a senior rep... pm me chip!

Fancy sacking your own wife jim

pm the the name of your main company thats listed on the fste 100...

So they accessed your private correspondence and your private opinions that were meant for your friends eyes only and not for public access....?

Chip I'm pretty certain you have a rather strong case here. I'll pass this on to my mate who is doing rather well for himself in London in the law department and see what he says.

But common sense says they have totally fooked up here.

bad news that chip, sorry ro hear it.

come and clean windows wiv me, or form a class new band...

was the use of the internet in their time or yours?
if you are always forgetting to log out of websites can they prove that it was you using the sites?
were the phone calls traceable to you ie were they to a phone line that only you had access to at any particular time?

Just get in touch with a friend of a friend at TBI.

He's the bomb were clever sols come from....

An office internet caff is independent of your workstation pcs and should be respected as such.

I'm sure you would no longer want to work for them anyway now but making your point is making your point.

You will get another job - PM me

Chip
Again sorry to hear about this....
We had a similar situation with a young lad in our office.....our IT did track his works e mail which he frequently wrote that "basically took the p.... when he was at work and he done F... all and got paid for doing nothing and evryone one around him were tossers etc etc....I was not involved in the disciplinary hearing but needless to say he resigned....this was not because he used MY space or face book etc etc (Yout IT bods can easilly block all those sites if they thought that was an issue.....It also prompted us to issue an internet policy which at the time we never had....i m certain you financialy would not sack someone for something that was never stated to be "not company policy"
This ,together with the letter on your desk,no consultaion etc etc is completly wrong and would never hold up if it went to court(IMO)....in fact thro exp....the judge i believe would instantlty look at the way the company handled the whole thing and would get no support from the judge....Im not saying that you will all keep your jobs but i believe you will stand a very good chance of compensation in some way.
We also moved from one town to another and we had to and still do reimburse all employers to travel the extra distance tho it did depend on how much it affected each individual and was agreed by all the montary value of this payment....
Im no empoyment law specialist but i do have 1st hand experience in these matters and to be honest it all sounds bad from the way your company has handled it all......
Hope it gets resolved...quickly

Mr Chip.

I'll speak to the wife this evening, it's not her field but there may be a specialist at her firm who can advise you or take it on.

I'll let you know.



PS. I wouldn't use TBI to settle an argument between kids in the playground never mind owt more complicated!

I almost got sacked of the same thing i was slagging the company on a fourm was suspended for 2 weeks then given a final warning, they also check myspace facebook etc to see if anyone has been slagging the company a few people have been given the boot for it.

Did I mention that I work for the best company in the world?

They are tremendous, the management is out of this world and I would recommend them to anybody anywhere as being top notch.

you wouldn't by any chance work for a company that might be a call centre situated on the marina would you?

Chip,

Correct me if I'm wrong but they have zero proof that you wrote it. You are very bad at logging yourself out of computers so obviously someone has used the computer after you and played a prank on you. As a good employee you wouldn't dream of saying such things. It's impossible to prove that you actually wrote it.

It seems to me that your human rights have also been infringed. I'd be shocked if your contract of employment didn't give them the right to record phone calls and obviously internet usage long with it. A company internet cafe seems a grey area to me, it would need a specialised legal opinion.

Incidentally, any action that potentially causes redundancies must by law be subject to a 30 day consultation period. If it involved the possibility of redundancies of more than 100 people then that consultation must be 90 days. These consultations also must be meaningful.

They are perfectly within their rights to relocate the business but they must by law go through the correct process.

Finally, I'd be very careful what you write about this on here in fact if I were you I'd consider deleting whats already on here.

Fight it out but remember that the minute you admit that you scribed it, you're fooked.

As for getting another job; I don't think it will be a factor. Given that you have clearly performed well, after all they promoted you. The prime factor for interviewer is 'can he do the job better than another candidate?' As long as you are open and clear to a potential employer, explaining that your blog was hacked its not a real issue. Even if you resigned now these events would be reflected in any reference enquiry so you need to get your side of the story in first at interview.

PM sent, Chip

makes me glad I'm self employed!!
I'd seriously hate all that shite

There is the option of handing in your notice and later going back at them for constructive dismissal, but I'm not the expert and if you get the chance, talk to one about it.

Sorry to hear your news mate. Good luck with it.

Either way with your length of service its a big call to instantly dismiss you given that its perfectly possible that someone else wrote it. Even if you had then at worst I would have thought that a written warning is appropriate, possibly a first and final. Should they instantly dismiss you then its off to the tribunal.