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William Anderson, 24, Lori Kennedy, 27 and two other Gala Bingo employees were sacked after taking food and drink into one of their bingo clubs on a day out last year.
Gala Bingo employees are not allowed to play bingo in the same club in which they work, so this event happened at a different Club (Gala’s Possil Park ).
Online Bingo employees such as chat moderators etc are not allowed to play at the online site in which they work at in any instances. This would breach their policies and result in instant dismissal. Plus any wins they may of had could be made null and void, so not worth the risk especially when there are over 300 online sites to select from.
The four Gala workers, all from Fife, were said to have smuggled food and drink into the club on their day out. They apparently hid the drink under the table whilst playing bingo. They were brought to the attention of the Manager because of their noisy behaviour and he then discovered their connection with Gala. This led to the dismissal of all four employees.
Two of the four Gala employees involved in this dismissal, William and Lori feel the decision to sack them was unjust and have taken them to tribunal on the grounds of unfair dismissal. The case begun a last week, but has now been adjourned until May 2013.
At the start of the case, the employment tribunal in Dundee heard that they had been sacked on two counts – 1, for breeching company policy and 2, for breeching their liquor licence.
However, the guy who sacked them, Regional Gala Bingo Manager, Peter Connor, has since admitted that their behaviour did not in fact breach of any such policies. He also said his mind was on other things at the time, as he was moving clubs and the dismissal letters sent out could have been worded a bit better.
Gala Solicitor, Margaret Anne Clark, asked Ms Kennedy what would have happened to customers in the same circumstances – Lori replied “The drink would have been taken off them and the manager would have been informed as they don’t have a licence to allow people to drink their own alcohol.”
Gala Manager, Mr Conner remained adamant that he had made the right decision, when being cross examined though, he admitted that there was “nothing in the licensing legislation to prevent people consuming their own alcohol.”
The case continues and will re-start in May.
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