Misconduct | Employee awarded £25k after '£4 theft'

A man has been awarded €29,000 (£25588.62) after an employment tribunal found he was unfairly dismissed for taking a magazine out of a bin – Independent.ie reports.

Tim Marks was sacked by ICTS Ireland in October 2014 for gross misconduct after he allegedly took a copy of TIME magazine, worth about £4.40, from a rubbish bag on the stairwell of a United Airlines aircraft.