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£2Kaward for resignation
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,s A truck driver has been awarded 12,000 compensation at an employment tribunal for unfair constructive dismissal after claiming his boss had grabbed him by the throat and 'threatened to knock his block off" following a dispute.
Driver Ken Prentice, of Coleshill, near Birmingham, told a Birmingham Employment Tribunal that he had resigned from his job at haulage firm John Butlin after just over 12 months following the incident. Prentice later complained to the police but they decided to take no action, the Tribunal was told.
BAHR who is managing director of the family business, strongly denied he had grabbed Prentice or had threatened him.
Butlin said he intervened as a peacemaker when a dispute a broke out between Prentice and another truck driver in October last year over the loading of a truck.
Bonin said that Prentice had refused to drive a truck to a waste tip because he said "it was beneath him".
The panel decided that Prentice was entitled to resign under the definition of unfair constructive dismissal where circumstances make it impossible for the employee to continue, and that he was due compensation.