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Bullying pushed probation officer out of job.
UNISON, the UK’s leading public sector union, is again calling on employers to root out the workplace bullies, as part of its Bully Busters* campaign. The call to action comes after a probation officer was bullied out of a job he had held for 16 years.
Dominick Lee, 54, from Bexley, South London, was awarded £83,000 for being unfairly dismissed, after he was sacked by the London national probation service in July 2007.
In February 2006 Dominic was given just three days notice that his court-based job no longer existed. He was told he would be transferred to a desk-bound role. Mr Lee complained to his bosses that the sudden transfer was ‘collective bullying’, but was suspended from his job in December 2006.
He was sacked seven months later, when an internal disciplinary hearing found that his failure to move jobs amounted to gross misconduct. UNISON backed Mr Lee’s case and took the claim to the Croydon employment tribunal.
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November 9, 2009
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