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17 August 2009 | Postman compensated for dismissal after injury
A Scottish postal worker has been compensated after an employment tribunal ruled that he had been dismissed unfairly for taking leave after an occupational accident.
Glasgow Employment Tribunal awarded Jamie McSorley, 25, a compensation payout of £5,000 after he had been sacked by Royal Mail for a three-week absence from work after he injured himself tripping over a wall, reports the Hamilton Advertiser.
The company had claimed that Mr McSorley had been to blame for his own accident and was therefore not entitled to have his absence written off as being caused by a work injury.
However, the tribunal decided that the fall over the two-foot wall constituted a standard risk for postmen and that it would be unfair to suggest that he had invited his injury.
Employment judge Hugh Murphy said: "No evidence was laid before us to suggest that the circumstances in this case are exceptional or any way unusual."
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