Transport manager cites unfair dismissal
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A SAINSBURY'S transport manager has been refused temporary reinstatement at a Birmingham Employment Tribunal.
Maleka Bibi-Hudson of Tamworth was contesting the company's decision to dismiss her from its Hams Hall site where she helped supervise the work of 300 drivers,
The company had accused BibiHudson of issuing a document criticising working conditions at the depot. She, in turn, had made compensation claims against the company for race, religious and sex discrimination; as well as unfair dismissal.
She was applying for temporary reinstatement to her post before her full tribunal hearing at a later date. She alleged she was dismissed for criticising the way the site was run. She had also suggested improvements
Jonathan Meakin, for the company, said that Bibi-Hudson intended to disclose the contents of the document internally and externally. I-le rejected her claims of discrimination. "Mrs Bibi-Hudson
appears to have gone for everything to see what sticks," he said.
Tribunal Judge Alan McCarty rejected the claim for temporary reinstatement. Bibi -Hudson's compensation claims will be heard later this year.