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An employer has been ordered to pay a sacked worker $28k in compensation, after it backed out of an agreement to provide him with support to achieve his performance targets.
In January this year the Polymaster account manager, who handled distribution and sales of the employer's products in southern NSW, notified his supervisor he was losing his licence for six months.
As a result, the employer said that while the employee was unable to drive, he could work from home and it would arrange for other staff members to drive him to visit clients and maintain some face-to-face contact every four-to-six weeks.
A couple of weeks later, the employer's national sales manager drove the employee to visit clients in Orange, Bathurst and Mudgee, however no further arrangements were made for face-to-face meetings in the following two months...
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