So, you wake up one morning only to discover that you fancy a day on your PlayStation 3 have a dreadful sore throat. You don't feel up to making a phone call, but since you have your boss' mobile number, you send them a text instead. Can you get sacked for doing that?
According to an employment tribunal here in the UK, no - as long as that method's been accepted in the past, and you haven't been issued with regulations forbidding it. The ruling came in a case involving sales adviser Mark Morrison (no, not that one), who used texts to tell his boss he'd be off sick on two separate occasions.
He sued for unfair dismissal, and won, with the tribunal saying because his employer had accepted him notifying them by text one week, they couldn't sack him the next for the same method. Morrison got £6,977 in damages, but the rest of us get more days off without having to fake a sore throat on the phone. Er.. not that we'd ever do such a thing, obviously.
(via Cellular News)
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