KS Hotels Ltd t/a Holiday Inn Express Leigh – Sports Village deliberately gave false information to a Court of Law and tampered with evidence!

KS Hotels Limited t/a Holiday Inn Express Leigh – Sports Village were recently taken to an Employment Tribunal by an ex-employee for unfair dismissal. The employee had a previous warning on file which was taken into account when KS Hotels Ltd dismissed him.

At the Employment Tribunal KS Hotels Ltd maintained the previous warning was given in ‘good faith’ (which means the previous warning was only decided upon after a Disciplinary Investigation had been conducted and after the employee had been given the opportunity to put forward his defense at a Disciplinary Hearing). The Judge accepted that the previous warning was given in ‘good faith’ and, found the dismissal to be fair when he took the warning into account. Without the previous warning, the dismissal would not have been fair.

The Disciplinary Hearing in question was held on 7th November 2014. For the warning to have been given in 'good faith', it must have been decided upon from 7th November 2014 onward. As you will see from the below email, the warning in question was actually decided upon on 26th October 2014 – a whole 12 days before the Disciplinary Hearing took place and before the employee was given the opportunity to put forward his defense. This meant no matter what the employee said at his disciplinary, he was getting that warning regardless; and that alone breached employment law.

Therefore, when KS Hotels Ltd t/a Holiday Inn Express Leigh – Sports Village maintained that the warning was given in ‘good faith’, they knowingly gave false information to the Court because they knew the warning was not given in ‘good faith’. As well as giving false information to the Court about the warning, KS Hotels Ltd also removed the below email from the Court evidence bundle so the Judge wouldn't see it – they clearly knew how damaging that piece of evidence was for them.

Not only have KS Hotels Ltd put Health & Safety at risk by chaining and padlocking a guest fire exit shut in breach of Fire Safety Regulations (as mentioned in a previous blog), not only have they breached the Data Protection Act by handing over a hard copy of ‘customer information’ to a stranger (as mentioned in a previous blog), not only have they failed in their 'Duty of Care' toward guests and staff by leaving a member of staff alone and in charge just after they assessed him as showing signs of stress (as mentioned in a previous blog), not only have they misinform guests about staff Fire Safety training (as mentioned in a previous blog), and not only do their staff lie to guests about room availability (as mentioned in a previous blog), they have also given false information to a Court and tampered with evidence!

Are these really the kind of people you want to put your trust in and do business with?