A 31-year-old pizza delivery driver has lost his legal battle for dismissal after he was sacked over the mistaken belief, he faced in court on a child abuse charge.<\/p>\n
Birmingham Employment Tribunal has been told that Mohammad Khan, based at Domino\u2019s Pizza in Studley, Warwickshire, told a customer who ordered pizza and diet coke, \u201cso much for healthy eating\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mr Khan believed he was derided by work colleagues for his views as a \u201cMuslim Scientist\u201d, someone who believes Allah created the Big Bang.<\/p>\n
The tribunal has ruled Mr Khan was not sacked because of his race or religious views.<\/p>\n
He worked at the Studley shop from November 25, 2019, until May 2020.<\/p>\n
The hearing was told that on May 5, 2020, Mr Khan told a fellow worker he had been sacked from a previous job for asking a 12-year-old girl if \u201cshe had been a good girl that day\u201d. The child\u2019s father complained.<\/p>\n
In a text message, he said: \u201cYou can bully and harass someone, but you can\u2019t ask a customer how they are.\u201d<\/p>\n
Details of the conservation got back to Faraz Wasti, a member of the company\u2019s HR team.<\/p>\n
He directly asked Mr Khan if he faced a child sex abuse hearing.<\/p>\n
He claimed Mr Khan told him: \u201cOh it\u2019s a false allegation, I used to work as a cleaner in David Lloyd clubs, I was in a changing room cleaning and bumped into a 12-year-old girl and I asked her, how are you and have you been a good girl at school today?<\/p>\n
\u201cThe girl started crying and ran to her dad saying I was grabbing her. Her dad was not very happy about it, called me a paedophile, complained to management of David Lloyd and asked them if they had done a DBS check on me.\u201d<\/p>\n
The HR worker was adamant Mr Khan used the words \u201ccourt\u201d and \u201cjury\u201d. Mr Khan denied using the words \u201cpaedophile\u201d or \u201cgrabbed\u201d.<\/p>\n
Infact, Mr Khan faced no criminal action whatsoever. He was chasing a claim against his previous employers at an employment tribunal.<\/p>\n
This was not mentioned during their meeting, said the HR representative. He was led to believe the driver faced criminal proceedings.<\/p>\n
Mr Khan said he made it clear he had not been investigated or charged by police, that he was going to an employment tribunal.<\/p>\n
In his report, Employment Judge Faulkner said: \u201cWhat was clear to us was that Mr Wasti had clearly formed the view by the end of the meeting that the claimant was subject to criminal proceedings \u2013 not that he was guilty of an offence, but that proceedings were on foot.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe claimant can properly be said to be someone who, though clearly intelligent, is often unmeasured and somewhat careless when speaking and is on occasion prone to hyperbole.\u201d<\/p>\n
The judge added: \u201cWe therefore concluded that it was likely, on balance, that the Claimant used the words \u2018jury\u2019 and \u2018court\u2019 during this conversation with Mr Wasti, however inadvisably, and he does not appear to have expressly denied that there was a trial even though he denied any guilt.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A 31-year-old pizza delivery driver has lost his legal battle for dismissal after he was sacked over the mistaken belief, he faced in court on a child abuse charge. Birmingham Employment Tribunal has been told that Mohammad Khan, based at Domino\u2019s Pizza in Studley, Warwickshire, told a customer who ordered pizza and diet coke, \u201cso […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}