A former adviser who won £25,000 in compensation after being unfairly dismissed for 'drunkenly offending' a client is still awaiting her payout months after the case was resolved in her favour.
Amanda Daughters was accused by her former bosses at Aqua Financial Solutions of 'drunkenly abusing' a client and sacked from her position in 2010. Daughters subsequently won an appeal claim for unfair dismissal in June and was awarded £25,000 in compensation by West Croydon Employment Tribunal. The judgment said her appeal against her former employer was "well founded". At the original employment tribunal Daughters admitted to offending a client while drinking alcohol and the tribunal found against her, however, she was granted leave to appeal and was found to have been unfairly d...
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