Telling a colleague to shut up in front of others at work could break employment laws, a tribunal has ruled.
A company director successfully sued his boss after he tried to silence him during a Teams meeting.
David Ashe won 14,568 in compensation after complaining about Roger Topping’s “unacceptable” behaviour when he told him to “shut up”.
Employment Judge Lucy Wiseman supported Mr Ashe’s constructive unfair dismissal claim. She said: “Mr Topping did not have reasonable and proper cause to tell a fellow director to ‘shut up’ during a staff meeting and in front of other, more junior, staff.”
The Glasgow tribunal heard that Mr Ashe was hired to be the successor to Mr Topping at Claims Equilibrium Trust, an insurance assistance provider.
He had employed Mr Ashe on the basis that he would sell him 50 per cent of the business within five years for a set fee.
Their relationship deteriorated in Mr Ashe’s first year as a director. Mr Ashe claimed the was not given enough work, while Mr Topping claimed that he was not finding enough work.
In June last year, Mr Topping said “he could not see the current relationship improving and therefore there was no prospect of the originally planned partnership of 50/50 working”. Mr Topping then offered to sell the entire company to Mr Ashe, which was refused.
Following this meeting, Mr Ashe emailed Mr Topping telling him he disagreed that he was the cause of the unresolved issues between the two.
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