AN INDUSTRIAL TRIBUNAL DECIDED IT WAS ”REASONABLE

AN INDUSTRIAL TRIBUNAL DECIDED IT WAS ”REASONABLE” FOR A

TUBE TRAIN TICKET CLERK WITH 15 YEARS SERVICE TO BE SACKED FOR

FAILING TO RECORD JUST 90P IN EXCESS FARES.

MR AJMAL HUSSAIN DARR SAID AFTER LOSING HIS BATTLE TO WIN

BACK HIS JOB THAT HE WOULD BE APPEALING TO THE EMPLOYMENT APPEALS

TRIBUNAL.

”IT WAS AN AMAZING DECISION REALLY – WE CAN’T UNDERSTAND

IT,” SAID HIS COUNSEL, MR JEREMY ROBERTS.

THE THREE-MAN INDUSTRIAL TRIBUNAL AGREED THAT LONDON

TRANSPORT HAD ACTED REASONABLY IN FIRING MR DARR FOLLOWING THE

ALLEGED INCIDENT IN OCTOBER ST YEAR.

BUT ONE MEMBER OF THE PANEL THOUGHT THAT THE ACTUAL SACKING

OF 32-YEAR-OLD MR DARR WAS JUST ACCEPTABLE.

COMMENTING ON LONDON TRANSPORT’S DECISION TO FIRE MR DARR,

TRIBUNAL CHAIRMAN MR F.

R.

DAVIES SAID: ”ALL THREE OF US FOUND THIS A

DIFFICULT QUESTION TO ANSWER IN THIS CASE BUT IN THE END WE HAVE

DECIDED THAT IT WAS REASONABLE, THOUGH ONE OF US FEELS THAT IT WAS

VERY NEAR TO THE MARGIN.

”

MR DARR WAS SACKED AFTER HE WAS CHECKED BY TWO TEAMS OF

”TESTERS” WHO VISITED WEST BROMPTON TUBE STATION.

TWO PASSED THROUGH AND THEIR EXCESS FARES WERE CORRECTLY

RECORDED.

BUT ANOTHER PAIR, FOLOWED ONLY A FEW MINUTES LATER BY A

SINLGE TESTER, ALL HANDED OVER 30P IN EXCESS FARES, NONE OF WHICH

WERE RECORDED BY MR DARR.

ENDS

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