THE owners of a pub in Glasgow have been ordered to pay more than £1700 to a former worker they sacked unfairly.

Black Pearl Pub Co Ltd, which runs The Montford, near Hampden Park, employed Ms Storrie as a bar worker in March 2021.

A recent employment tribunal heard later that year she was sacked after raising concerns about deductions from her wages.

But the company claimed she was let go due to her being “insulting and abusive about her employer” on Facebook.

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Ms Storrie had asked for payslips but was unable to view any until nearly a year into her employment, which is when she noticed she was being subject to deductions for tax and National Insurance.

However, she was not required to pay tax due to her earnings being below £12,750 per year.

She phoned HMRC enquiring about a tax rebate but was told they had no record of her employment.

Ms Storrie asked for the owner of the bar to contact HMRC in mid-February 2022, before chasing this up the following month.

She spoke to the owner’s daughter on March 24, 2022, and the following day she was dismissed by the owner.

He told her he had “decided not to keep you and you can go home”.

Black Pearl Pub Co Ltd said Ms Storrie’s dismissal was due to abusive Facebook posts and her spreading wrong information about her employer.

However, employment judge Jim Young stated: “The posts produced by the claimant as directed fall short of that described by the respondent.

"There is no foul language being used and neither can the posts be said to be ‘insulting and abusive about her employer’.

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“The posts seek advice from others on her Facebook page about how the matters might be resolved. There is no mention of the respondent by name.”

He added: “I accept that the reason or principal reason for dismissal was that the claimant was asserting a statutory right, namely the unauthorised deductions from her wages. That means that she succeeds in her claim of unfair dismissal.”

It was also stated Ms Storrie didn't receive a contract identifying her hours of work or other terms.

Ms Storrie was awarded a total of £1781.

This included £1075 for unauthorised deduction of wages.