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RMT wins legal case against Green Park management for unfair dismissal and disability discrimination

Submitted by janine on Sun, 07/09/2008

SAMF Gianpaolo Vuoto had worked for LUL for nine years when in November 2007, Piccadilly line management sacked him.

They dressed it up at his medical dismissal as 'reasonable', but nothing could be further from the truth - Gianpaolo had been able and was willing to continue being employed despite suffering from multiple sclerosis. All his workmates at Green Park backed him and testified to this in the tribunal.

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Sacked For Being Sick and Disabled

Submitted by John on Tue, 26/08/2008

CSA Karl Niles having given 19 years service to London Underground was sacked from his job as a CSA at Pimlico for suffering from Asthma and taking some time off to recover from his attacks.The total amount of time that Karl has had off is between 20 and 25 days yet he has fallen foul of LUL's ridiculous Attendance at Work procedure.

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