Forklift driver SACKED for wearing an England flag hat on St George’s Day

Tesstacious wrote:•Adam Lawson, 32, wore the England flag cap to work to celebrate St George's Day - England's national day
•But the forklift driver was told to remove it because it wasn't work uniform
•Mr Lawson, from Swindon, was later told never to return to work•The patriotic father says it's 'ridiculous' he wasn't allowed to celebrate

'St George’s Day is part of English culture, I didn’t want to offend anyone or cause malice and I don’t believe I did.
'I’m disgusted as I’m a patriotic guy and to me it is wrong that I wasn’t allowed to celebrate English culture and was deterred from doing so, as I wasn’t doing any harm.
'I think it is a sad state of affairs if we are stopped from acknowledging our culture.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2613147/Forklift-driver-SACKED-wearing-England-flag-hat-St-Georges-Day-wasnt-work-uniform.html

Ben_Reilly wrote:Sounds like there's a bit more to this than just England-bashing -- for one, he had already turned in his notice, and he suspects they just wanted to get rid of him before he'd finished his notice period.

Secondly, and I'm no expert here, but one of the people at the auto parts dealer that fired him mentioned safety equipment -- aren't forklift operators generally required to wear a hardhat by most companies these days?

Tesstacious wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:Sounds like there's a bit more to this than just England-bashing -- for one, he had already turned in his notice, and he suspects they just wanted to get rid of him before he'd finished his notice period.


thats illegal over here...once you have put your notice in the ONLY reason they can "sack" you is gross industrial misconduct....which THIS would not be.

Secondly, and I'm no expert here, but one of the people at the auto parts dealer that fired him mentioned safety equipment -- aren't forklift operators generally required to wear a hardhat by most companies these days?

I thought that about the hard hat, but I think they would have mentioned that.  As for it being against company policy, that' so typical of England - it's lost all sense of community, it's like a police state.  You should see all the people, shopworkers, everyone, here in Ireland on St Patricks Day - all wearing silly big green hats.  It used to be like that in England.

victorisnotamused wrote:what was that you waffled dodgy didge.....usual cowering crap I suppose....

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eddie wrote:I find newspapers do this a lot actually; they claim something in bold headlines and then you read further down and realise it's not quite as it first seemed.

Sassy wrote:

eddie wrote:I find newspapers do this a lot actually; they claim something in bold headlines and then you read further down and realise it's not quite as it first seemed.

Couldn't agree more.   The man was a temp, he could have been asked to go without a reason being given.   Whole load of waffle about nothing!