Tuesday Q&As

6.6.23

• Wife dismissed because cleaning company lost the contract. Next steps?

• Will medical records be released on an occupational health referral?

• Employer refusing to put me on light duties following an accident at work. What do I need to do?

• Does the written warning still stand if I wasn’t informed by letter and couldn’t appeal?

• As a carer, should I be paid for time between home visits?

• Am I receiving the correct holiday entitlement?

• Do I have to take my rest break?

• Can the Company Handbook be changed without consultation with staff?

• Can my employer limit the amount of holiday I can take off at any one time?

• How long is a notice period for 7 years at work?

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Wife dismissed because cleaning company lost the contract. Next steps?

Q. My wife has worked part time for a Cleaning company for about 3 years and need some advice as they have ended her employment and would like some advice on where my wife stands now with they have done. At abut 6pm on friday evening she got a email from her company which had a letter in it saying 

I am writing to you to inform you her company no longer hold the cleaning contract and that her manager had spoken to her about it(which manager has not and has not spoken to my wife for a couple of months) so that is a lie. They also say in letter that it was communicated to our accounts team that you were leaving employment and your last day of work was Monday 17th April 2023. but she has been to work since April.
at the bottom of the letter it says that they had lost the contract with the place where she cleaned from June 1st which of course this is the reason why they have done this.

so where does my wife stand with this? can they just make out my wife had left the company when she did not and we would not had known about this if she did not have problem signing in when she got to work. when she 1st started the job 3 years ago they did not send her out a contract so we can not even see what it states in that about just ending her employment like this.

A. The cleaning company she worked for may have lost the contract, but another company probably took it instead. I don't know what the circumstances are, but this often happens to outsource cleaning companies for public services when the tender comes up for renewal, and they are not successful in retaining it.