Ask the expert: Sacked after 10 months

Posted by Martin Brewer, Esther Smith in Employment law on Sat, 09/01/2010 - 20:27

A graduate has been sacked after ten months, seemingly unfairly. Is there anything which can be done?

 

 

 

The question:

A person has been employed for approximately 10 months and passed probation after three months with no adverse comment. This is their first job after graduating from University.

Recently they received a letter straight after leave (to the home before returning to work) to state that the company had serious concerns about their work and they were to attend a 'performance appraisal' (sic) interview.
No detail was given but was consequently requested and received. All issues could (and should) have been raised at the time of any incident (and none were serious or could be considered gross misconduct.) The interview took place, with the line manager reeling off the 'issues' and advising that in view of these, the company were terminating the employment with immediate effect (please leave but we will pay you one months notice). The meeting lasted approximately five minutes.

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