Help and advice needed. TPO's/Conservation areas and prosecution!

[Rupe]

You wont get a fine!

 

If you do, pass it on to your boss, and if he wont pay it for you threaten him with employment tribunal. But that wont be neceesary, its only a conservation area and no reckless damage has been done.

 

HAve you been to see them yet?

[RobArb]

yes went yesterday evening, and it would be my ex-boss, i left in dec last year

Edited January 12, 2011 by RobArb
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[Rupe]

How did you feel about how it went?

 

Yes, I know it was your ex boss, but you can still get him!! You could sue him, or take him to small cliams to recover any fines plus costs plus stress etc etc.

 

But it wont come to that I'm sure.

[RobArb]

felt it went ok, was weird at first , felt as though i'd been arrested because it was under caution! Asked me my job role etc and why my name was on the report saying the trees needed to be pollarded (faked)! toward the end they were pleasant and reasonable and said they understood my position in things but it still wasn't a nice experience haha

[Rupe]

You'll be fine!! ( I mean fine not fined!!! Ha!)

 

Did you tell the client what "could" be done, not that it "should" be done? Big difference.

[Hawthorn]

 

Yes, I know it was your ex boss, but you can still get him!! You could sue him, or take him to small cliams to recover any fines plus costs plus stress etc etc.

 

At the county court (small claims) you can only recover actual (financial) losses. You cannot even be compensated for loss of your time trying to rectify the problem before court or preparing your case!

 

Doesn't seem fair if you've wasted hours of time, but that's the way it is

[RobArb]

yup definately told them it "could" be done, would never TELL anyone what should be done, even foreigners, i give them an opinion and they decide what they want to be done.

 

the plain facts:-

 

it wasn't or ever was my job to quote/tender/survey/find/organise/sort/seek tpo advice etc any tree work

 

i worked on the tools

 

i was at the work site on my own doing some hedgecutting and was asked to give an opinion (in hindsight, which is a wonderful thing, i should've said no) on the trees

 

i wrote down in handwriting all trees on site and my opinion of what COULD be done, gave a copy to work site and re-wrote another and gave to boss, thought i was doing him a favour!!

 

about 6-8 weeks later, we got a job pack with description of tree works with basically my opinions typed up into a list, (still no report as such from the boss) i can't remember if they all were the same as mine but the pollards where.

 

we started the work, left the pollards till last

 

late friday afternoon, made a start on pollarding the ash, had time to take one smallish limb off which i did, then packed up the tools and went back to base/home

 

i fell sick that weekend, had the start of the week off work sick and when i came in later that week the job had been nearly completed by chargehand and another colleague. i stayed on the ground, the trees (according to LA TO have been topped)

 

dec - i left the company

 

upon leaving i was told by my boss good luck etc etc but also that there had been a complaint about the pollards (just a complaint not who) and as part of his complaints procedure, could i write (again hand written) why we had done the job.

 

i did this in a fair amount of detail, writing down ash had dieback in crown, hispidus brackets etc etc, again thought i was doing him a favour and i DIDN't sign it.

 

then the LA ring and ask me to come in under caution.

 

in interview they show me a written report (typed up) with my writings in there saying why i had said the job should be done...!!!!!

 

was told by interviewers that my ex boss had told them he had no arb quals and wasn't qualified to make these decisions?

 

hopefully i put them straight in the end but can you see how it looks bad!

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