£20k paid to sacked ‘moaner’
A MORTGAGE advisor has been awarded more than £20,000 after she was sacked for “moaning”.
Helen McMahon was dismissed without explanation two days after she complained about her salary, commission and sick pay and told bosses her 48-hour week made her “stressed”.
Mortgage and insurance brokers Heron Financial Limited claimed she was fired in 2019 for poor performance.
But her boss Robin Thomas had sent a text to a colleague in which he said “she was always moaning”.
And Helen – who worked for the Rickmansworth, Herts firm for two years – had been given a bottle of champagne in recognition of her hard work, an employment tribunal in Cambridge heard.
She was awarded £19,552.33 for unfair dismissal, £2,736.38 for unlawful deduction from wages, £586.81 for unpaid commission and sick pay and £252.41 for wrongful dismissal.