{"id":6128,"date":"2025-06-20T14:46:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=6128"},"modified":"2025-06-20T14:46:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:46:39","slug":"careys-directors-sacked-after-4m-job-loss-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/careys-directors-sacked-after-4m-job-loss-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Careys directors sacked after \u00a34m job-loss showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two former Careys directors have won an unfair dismissal case after being sacked on the spot when it was revealed a job they were helping to run was set to lose \u00a34m.<\/p>\n

An Employment Tribunal has ruled that their sacking was unfair on technical grounds but denied them compensation because of a “100% chance” they would have been dismissed if proper procedures had been followed.<\/p>\n

Regional Commercial Manager Donal Coppinger and Regional Director John McInerney were part of the senior team overseeing the Riverside Waste to Energy plant in South East London.<\/p>\n

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The \u00a339m contract was initially budgeted to make a \u00a33.3m profit for Careys.<\/p>\n

But a string of setbacks on the complex job radically changed the costings culminating in a showdown meeting with Careys executives last summer where it was revealed that the job was now expected to lose the firm \u00a34m.<\/p>\n

At the heated meeting CEO Jason Carey said: \u201cWhat have you two been doing for the last 12 months? Tickling each other\u2019s bollocks?”<\/p>\n

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He then told the pair to “get out of his sight and leave today.”<\/p>\n

Employment Judge Kara Loraine ruled that their dismissals were unfair because of the failure to follow disciplinary procedure.<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/K7cYs90<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two former Careys directors have won an unfair dismissal case after being sacked on the spot when it was revealed a job they were helping to run was set to lose \u00a34m. An Employment Tribunal has ruled that their sacking was unfair on technical grounds but denied them compensation because of a “100% chance” they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-6128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6129,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6128\/revisions\/6129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}