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Having worked for her employer for 20 years, Mrs Smith was dismissed for gross misconduct after sending a series of emails to a trading partner company in which she referred to a colleague as a “knob” and a “knob head”. 

Fortem Solutions provide property repairs for Birmingham City Council, their repairmen were provided with vans to support their work.  The company’s vehicle and driver policy stated that vans were only provided for work duties and must not “under any circumstances be used for private purposes other than for ordinary commuting. Unauthorised use of a company vehicle is deemed to be gross misconduct and may result in dismissal.”

Mr C Decker worked for Merseyside based driver recruitment agency Extra Personnel Logistics from 2008 until his resignation in 2017.  For the majority of that time he was involved in recruiting drivers of heavy and large goods vehicles.

Understandably, one of the key questions prospective customers want the answer to, is how much will it cost me to get external HR support?