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Article: Whistle-blower takes pounds30,000 cut Whistleblower Matthew Harper has accepted a pounds30,000 cut in a pay out from Torbay Council to settle his unfair sacking case.
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- Herald Express (Torquay UK)
- Article date:
- May 9, 2007
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Whistleblower Matthew Harper has accepted a pounds30,000 cut in a
pay out from Torbay Council to settle his unfair sacking case.
Torbay Council spent pounds38,500 fighting the case from start to
finish and saved itself pounds30,000 in a final wrangle over Mr
Harper's pension.
He also has to meet his own legal bills from the pounds182,000
settlement he has accepted.
The bill so far for Torbay Council is pounds222,000 and this does
not take account of the cost in officer time and the Bowles report
into the issues, which was published last year.
Mr Harper, 48, of Paignton, was awarded pounds212,000 in August
last year after an industrial tribunal ruled he was unfairly sacked
as assistant ...