Former Wirral care home manager wins £31,000 compensation after unfair dismissal

A FORMER care manager has been awarded £31,000 after winning her case for constructive dismissal.

Carole Boden, 62, was handed the five-figure sum after a two-year battle with Polder Care homes, based in Wirral.

Ms Boden said: “There is a huge sense of relief.

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

An employment tribunal ruled she had been squeezed out of the company after refusing to “forge inspection documents”.

Ms Boden, of Prenton, said she endured months of bullying and humiliation at the Hoylake and Rock Ferry care homes, the tribunal heard.

She then went through a series of grievance 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 report, employment judge Keith Robinson called the care home owners and senior management “vindictive” and “small-minded”.

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