Glade Builders pay £4k for unfair dismissal

Two Doncaster carpenters have been paid £2,000 each in an out-of-court settlement after their London-based employee sacked them for leaving early to see a Def Leppard concert.

Glen Wilkinson and Neil Harvey had worked for Glade Builders for two years. However, they were dismissed without warning after they left the capital two hours early to travel to Sheffield to see the gig.

The case was finally settled at an industrial tribunal in Croydon, London, last month.

Michael Dooley, of union UCATT which took up the case, said: "The settlement was amicable on all sides."

Glade Builders refused to comment.