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.

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Station Manager at Shannon for ICTS, Audrey Wilhite, told the tribunal panel that there is zero tolerance in the company towards alleged theft, even when the item that was supposedly stolen held such a low value.

"We are a security company and the whole basis of what we do is protecting all of the items on the aircraft,” she explained.