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Allied Industrial Services after committing a total of 100 tachograph offences were unfairly dismissed, an Industrial Tribunal has ruled.
But, the Leeds tribunal decided that Peter Smith, Damian Crowther and Selwyn Baldwin were 50% to blame for their dismissal The three, who lost their jobs in February 1992, were awarded a total of 121,000 compensation.
The Transport & General Workers Union says MS was at fault for not warning its drivers of a clamp-down on speeding and hours offences.
CI The TGWU is threatening to take Beck & Pollitzer to an industrial tribunal over an alleged failure to consult before making five drivers at Southampton redundant. The TDG subsidiary says the jobs were lost as part of a switch from spot-hire to contract work: the TGWU says the men should have been found jobs elsewhere in the group.