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How you can bunk off work on Monday after Euros final WITHOUT getting sacked, lawyer reveals
Barrister Lynette Calder also reveals an easier way to enjoy a lie in Monday morning
THERE is a way England fans can bunk off work on Monday after the Euros final without losing your job, a lawyer has revealed.
Depending on the outcome of the big game against Spain, Brits across the country are likely to be either celebrating or drowning their sorrows.
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Either way, many could over do it and find themselves the worse for wear come Monday morning and the need to head to work.
Lawyer Lynette Calder, from 5 Pump Court, has revealed there is a way you can be excused from a day’s toil without being fired.
In most cases, not turning up for work when you’re due in would be a breach of the terms and conditions of your employment.
Lynette warned: “Basically you have a contract with your employer and in most cases not turning up when you should will breach that contract, unless you are covered - as most people are - by a clause about sickness but it unlikely that a hangover will be covered by that.”
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But there is a way you can swerve this but it depends on how long you have worked for your employer as well as your track record of attendance there.
Any employer who has worked for the same employer for at least two years has the statutory right not to be dismissed unfairly.
Lynette said: “This means that in certain circumstances, whatever your contract says, the statutory rules apply.
“The key question here is likely to be your employers trust and confidence in you, if you lie and are caught out in a lie then that can be even more damaging than the not turning up.
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“On the other hand who wants to tell their boss they aren’t coming in because they are hungover?”
But a large factor is down to just how well you get on with your boss.
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Lynette added: “If it’s good and your company needs you then a strictly truthful ‘I really don’t’ feel very well’ is unlikely to be a big deal, unless everyone in the company does the same thing.
“In which case your employer may well want to make something of it to discourage it happening again, here you could be looking at a verbal or a written warning.”
Which would mean you are likely to find yourself in the clear with no problems, but things could be trickier if things aren’t so good.
Lynette said: “If you already have problems and there is a history of your employer querying your performance then they could take more drastic action up to and including dismissal for gross misconduct depending on all the circumstances.”
Another aspect to consider is just how important is it that you turn up for work on Monday and are able to perform your role.
The legal expert said: “If it is crucial to the business that you turn up on Monday and you don’t, or you turn up not capable of performing your job, then your employer may well be able to fairly impose sanctions up to and including dismissal.”
However, anyone trying to duck out of work when they have worked for their current boss for two years may find themselves in a sticky situation.
Lynette said: “If you have less than two years service bear in mind that the ‘fairness’ test doesn’t apply to you.
“That means in practise that your employer can get rid of you with very little risk to themselves, so you may be even less inclined to give them any sort of reason to want to.”
To give yourself peace of mind, come Monday morning and the possibility of being hungover, the advice is simple – book a day’s holiday.
If it’s too late for getting some time off there are some decent alcohol-free beers on the market that you can enjoy, safe in the knowledge you'll have a clear head in the morning.
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The news comes after it is expected a whopping £800million will be spent on pizza and beer for the Euro 2024 final.
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With warm weather forecast, packed boozers around the country will be allowed to stay open extra late on Sunday night — as they were for Wednesday’s semi-final triumph.
Experts reckon Ollie Watkins’ dramatic 90th-minute winner against the Netherlands has triggered a £405million spending bonanza in pubs and supermarkets.
An estimated £120million worth of booze will be sunk on Sunday alone, with pubs expected to sell ten million more pints than usual.
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Tesco, Britain’s biggest supermarket, reckons it will sell four million packs of beer and cider, plus 1.2 million cans and bottles of low and zero-alcohol beer.
Andrew Rennie, chief executive of Domino’s, said the takeaway chain expects to be making 20 to 25 pizzas a second during the game.
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