A business manager has been awarded £42,000 after winning a legal battle with his former boss who asked him how he liked his new company car before firing him shortly after.
George Dolby, 73, had met owner and managing director Stuart Sayer, of Stuart Plant Ltd, for a simple work 'catch-up' at a hotel, an employment tribunal heard.
The pair walked through the car park of Holiday Inn West in Peterborough when Mr Dolby, who had been working at the company for eight years, was asked how he liked his company car.
He told Sayer that he liked it 'very much', but was immediately told afterwards that he was being made redundant - a move the employment judge slammed for being done in a 'brutal manner'.
The grandfather had to sell his family home that he had lived in for 35 years as a result and now earns minimum wage working for a fruit and vegetable wholesaler.
After claiming he was unfairly dismissed, the tribunal found in his favour and he will now be awarded an entire years-worth of his previous £42,000 salary.
George Dolby, then 71, was dismissed in a 'brutal manner' after meeting his former boss Stuart Sayer for a 'catch up' in a Peterborough hotel car park
The hearing had been told Mr Dolby began working for Stuart Plant Limited, a company which sells generators, pumps and lighting towers, in January 2010 where he was was in charge of key account managers.
On Friday November 2, 2018, at about 3pm, Mr Dolby was called by Mr Sayer who asked him to meet an hour later at the Holiday Inn West in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire,
