Recently, a mother was dismissed by the company for leaving get off work early to pick up a sick child at school, but she received a compensation of £13,000 (dating RMB 116,000).
This mother's name is Catherine Henderson, and she is now a trainee accountant in a company in West Lothian, with an annual salary of 18,500 pounds (dating RMB 165,000).
Catherine is the mother of two children at the same time. She has a child with a "potential health problem" who needs treatment and "additional support and care." So before entering the job, she told her boss about the child’s situation. Finally, her department manager, Charissa Gracie, agreed that she had a flexible working model. She would work from 9 am to 3 pm without a lunch break. , So she can pick up the child and go home from school.
On this day, Catherine was working in the company, and suddenly received a message from her child’s school that her child was sick and needed to take them home. Catherine was very anxious when she heard the news that the child was sick, so she needed to ask for leave to go back first. Since the manager was in a meeting, she told her colleagues about the situation and told her that she would call her manager.
In order to take care of the child, Catherine sent a text message to the manager the next day, falsely claiming that she was sick, not that her child was sick, she would be absent from work for three days. As a result, her first absence from work was recorded as "compassion leave", while the other two were unpaid leave.
Two months later, her boss told Katherine that her working hours had "adversely affected" the company, but Katherine insisted that she could not commit to full-time work because she had to take care of her children.
The manager believed that this incident and Catherine's continued "absence" were enough to dismiss her, so he sent her a letter of dismissal. The dismissal letter stated that she "acted insincerely" and judged her to leave without authorization to pick up her child as "serious misconduct."
Catherine felt that it was unfair that she was dismissed in this way, so she wrote to her company boss, but she did not have the right to appeal. So she sued the company for unfair dismissal.
Employment Judge Eleanor Mannion finally ruled,Catherine can take time off. Moreover, her former employer had to pay for her loss of income and loss of statutory rights. In the end, Catherine succeeded in obtaining compensation of £13,080.55 (dating RMB 117,000) from the company.
(Source: British "The Sun")
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