It was said at the time when Mohammed Asghar switched from Plaid Cymru to the Conservative Party that it could be storing up trouble for the Tories in the future and that prediction seems to be coming true as Mohammed Ashgar’s former Office Manager had lodged a complaint of Constructive Dismissal with an Employment Tribunal.
According to the Western Mail today ‘In interviews within days of his defection, he said the “last straw” that prompted his decision was the refusal of Plaid to sanction the employment of his daughter Natasha in his office. Ms Ashgar was herself a former Plaid candidate who quit the party and joined the Conservative Party at the same time as her father.
Now John Taylor, a Plaid councillor from Caerphilly who worked as Mr Asghar’s office manager, has lodged an application for constructive dismissal with the Employment Tribunal office in Cardiff. He has also named the Assembly Commission – which under the rules for remunerating AMs’ staff actually paid him – as a second respondent in the tribunal case.
In his application to the tribunal, Mr Taylor, 59, says he was taken on as an employee by Mr Asghar in July 2007.
The application states: “It was an implied term [of Mr Taylor’s contract of employment] that the claimant was employed to provide assistance to [Mr Asghar] an AM for Plaid Cymru. It was an implied term of the contract that the claimant would be working at all times within the Plaid Cymru political party.”
The application describes Mr Asghar’s decision to switch to the Conservatives as “a fundamental breach of the said express and implied terms of the contract”.
“Having taken the decision to defect to the Conservative Party ... [Mr Asghar] rendered it impossible and/or impracticable for [Mr Taylor] to continue in the said employment.”
It also seems that the Welsh Conservative’s were caught unaware of Mr Taylor application to the Tribunal and found out about this through the media. Whatever happens this is an unwelcome turn of event for the Tories who are hoping to win big in Wales in the coming weeks.Any source
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