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Vic Rumbold, an English man, sued the car company Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) claiming a wrongful dismissal that occurred in December 2018.
The case, however, barely transcends public opinion because a court in Birmingham, a city in southern England, agreed with Rumbold, who missed his shift 808 times during the 20 years that he worked with the company.
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The plaintiff requested each leave for health reasons, including work accidents and, on one occasion, an alleged assault case, explains the local media ‘Birmingham Live’.
According to a JLR spokesperson at the trial, Rumbod was absent more than 405 times between 2014 and 2018 alone. It was not until then that Rumbod was fired on the grounds of loss of work ability.
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However, the judge, identified simply as ‘Johnson’, found that JLR had not properly followed its own internal protocols.
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“In the best case scenario they would have reached a stage where the complainant could have received advice or a warning about their absences and the need to improve to avoid an additional sanction”, Explained the judge, collects the quoted medium.
In the trial it was also assured that, from March 12 to August 13, 2018, Rumbos had a leave for avascular necrosis (death of bone tissue due to lack of blood supply, according to the Mayo Clinic).
However, almost immediately I need a hip replacement operation, which put him out of work for an extra 12 weeks. Upon his return, he was transferred from assembly to a position that involves registering car license plates and what he could do sitting down.
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But he only lasted a week in that position before being fired. “It was a role made to get him back to work,” Rumbold said before the judge, relates ‘Birmingham Live’.
Now JLR will have to pay his former employee £ 95,850, that is, almost 450 million Colombian pesos at the current exchange rate.
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