Payout promise for ex-Worsthorne pub boss (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Payout promise for ex-Worsthorne pub boss

6:36pm Monday 22nd August 2011 in Worsthorne

A FORMER village pub manager has been promised a payout after he was sacked.

Richard Sharp lodged a wages claim against CGN Supplies, the firm which runs the Bay Horse pub in Worsthorne, Burnley.

An industrial tribunal heard that Mr Sharp’s boss, Colin Patten, returned from Spain last February and told him he was sacked.

Mr Sharp, who was living at the pub with his wife and seven-month-old baby, said he was effectively working seven-day weeks.

He now lives in Southport and claimed at the tribunal he was owed a week-and-a-half’s wages and holiday pay, which he had never received.

The tribunal heard he was first hired in March 2010 and was fired just weeks before completing a year’s service.

Employment judge Brian Doyle ruled in Mr Sharp’s favour, following a brief hearing in Burnley, at which CGN was not represented.