
02-28-2007, 05:33 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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wrongfully dissmissed with nowhere to turn
hello i was looking to see if what happend to me was wrongfull dissmissal.back in may i had been working in angola onboard a ship(lol yes im in the oil industry)when i got home on my leave period i had to reniew my survival and made contact with a local nautical colledge that runs a survival top up facility they gave me a date of the 3rd of july at first wich was great for me at the time as i had been in Africa for months as was feeling a bit burnt out so to have june off was a welcome rest i phoned the nautical coledge back 3 days later to pay for the course were they informed me i couldnt get onto a course untill the 24th of july i opted to book and pay for this as placec on thease courses go rapidly and i might not have got the chance again untill a month or so later in the mean time i was phoned by our office and asked to return to work i told them i had no valid survival and told them i would not have a survival untill the 24th of july the guy i spoke to said to me he needed me back to work as soon as possible so i should cancel my course and he would look for another one he phoned me back and told me i was going to middlsbourgh within the next couple of day's i told him seeing as i had been out of work since the may money was a bot tight and i couldnt aford to fly to and from midlsbourgh plus pay more money for the course spend 3 nights in a hotel as i had to borrow the money from my mother to book the original course he told me i must cancel the one i had previously booked and pay for the one he had set up i told him if i canceld i would be charged £150 to with he replyed well i dont know when i can get you back to work i replys to this that there is plenty of work meaning within the company the guy then says to me im sorry you feel like that and hung up on me wich i felt was strange and within 2 or 3 days of that phone call i recieved my p45 i phoned him up and asked him if i had been sacked or made redundant to wich he said no he had returned my p45 so i would have no problems signing on i have since then found out i was terminated but cannot get a reply to any phone calls e mails i tryed to take it to a tribuneal but was told to long had passed ive never recieved a penny from them i worked for them for 9 years and now im out of a lively hood due to a childish knee jerk reaction by somebody in power can anybody please offer me some advice as to what i should do next
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