A slap and a settlement

An employee was terminated from employment as he had been rude to his employer.

The employee, a bus driver in a Public Transport Company, approached his union who advised him to go back to the employer’s office and appeal for mercy. So the employee went back to the office, apologised to his employer and appealed to be reinstated in his job. All the employer said was, “ok you may go now. If we have a vacancy we will inform you.”

He waited for some good news from his employer but it was not forthcoming. He went back to the union office and explained that he was still out of employment and sought their assistance to intervene. The Union Officer who was busy trying to decipher the latest Collective Agreement at the time, became irritated and shouted at the member. “If he does not wish to take you back, go back with a smiling face make sure there are no witnesses and give him a hard slap.” The member followed these instructions to a tee, and came out with a smiling face and reported to the Union Officer that he had executed his instructions.

The Union Officer who did not remember his instructions to the employee, was taken aback and asked the member to relate what he did. When the member did, the Union Officer told him to deny the assault and to claim he went to the office asking for reinstatement and was chased out by the employer.

On the date of the conciliation meeting at the Industrial Relations Department, the employer had no proof of the assault while the worker had two witnesses who said the workman came out from the office holding his injured cheeks and related that the employer had slapped him.

The employer was adamant he did not wish to take the employee back into employment. He agreed to pay the employee his backwages from the date of dismissal but would not reinstate him. The workman was happy with the back pay and was not interested in reinstatement as he had found an alternate job.

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