A WOMAN who left her job in Scotland to work for Jacksons Garage as a BMW service adviser has won a £4,000 payout for unfair dismissal.

Lauraine Mackee came to Jersey in May 2004 to work as a service adviser – a liaison between customers and workshops – but said that she was ‘constructively dismissed’ over the company’s insistence that a £1,706 payment from them was a loan, not a relocation grant.

She quit her job in August last year because she says that managers refused to discuss the status of the grant/loan with her, or discuss her complaints about deductions from her wages.

An Employment Tribunal (deputy chairman Nicola Santos-Costa, Kelly Flageul and Billy McPhee) ruled that Miss Mackee was constructively dismissed and awarded her £3,230, instructing Jacksons to pay her back half of the £1,706 payment.

They also ruled that Jacksons broke the law by not allowing their workers proper access to their terms and conditions of employment.

The company were fined £500 for this.