£31,000 for being ‘bullied’ out of work for Wirral care home manager

Aug 14 2009 by Richard Down, Liverpool Echo

A FORMER care home manager has been given £31,000 in compensation after being “bullied” out of work.

Carole Boden, 62, left Polder Care homes based in Wirral after months of problems at the company.

Speaking moments after a remedy hearing at Liverpool Employment Tribunal, in the Cunard Building, she said: “There is a huge sense of relief.

“The fact that they have awarded such a fair sum is very important to me.

“I just feel so high now.”

The tribunal ruled that she had been squeezed out after refusing to “forge inspection documents”.

Miss Boden, of Prenton, endured months of bu llying and humiliation at the Hoylake and Rock Ferry care homes, the tribunal heard.

She then went through a series of grievances procedures and was handed a six-month suspension before eventually resigning with stress in July 2008.

In June the tribunal unanimously agreed her treatment amounted to unfair dismissal. In a hard hitting report employment judge Keith Robinson called the care home owners and senior management “vindictive” and “small-minded”.