Dismissed by Facebook?

Thanks to Richard Lowe, The HR Dept West London, for this interesting snippet.

I picked up an interesting idea of management from the daily paper yesterday.

A manager dismissed a coffee shop worker due to a shortage in the till. However the big problem with this is that the manager dismissed the worker by a ‘facebook message’ not the best way to get your marching orders.

Aside from the obvious ‘not following a standard procedure’ there may well be a claim for ‘emotional distress’. If this is taken on face value then it could cost the company up to £60,000 just for the unfair dismissal!

So if your clients would like to ‘wake up and smell the coffee’ rather than the aroma of an employment tribunal chamber, seek advice about the right way to conduct dismissals.