We successfully defended a claim on behalf of one of the UK’s largest domiciliary care providers. The claimant and some colleagues falsely recorded that they had attended home visits to vulnerable elderly clients, when in fact they had not. Medication was issued at morning visits but was recorded as having been given in evening visits which didn’t take place. This was discovered quickly by the company and care workers were suspended. Some of the workers alleged that the data and GPS systems were faulty, hoping that giving consistent accounts would make it hard for our client to have the level of certainty needed to justify a decision to dismiss.
The claimant alleged that she had blown the whistle about health and safety and that this was the real reason she was being dismissed. Given the wealth of evidence we had gathered both from our client’s IT and GPS systems and the witnesses that we were able to call, this undermined the claimant’s position, and it was flatly rejected at tribunal.