Labour Court recommended Compuscript raise ex-gratia offer to £500

In 1998, the Labour Court recommended that Compuscript Limited increase its ex-gratia offer to a desk editor to £500, without admitting liability. The recommendation was dated 10 September 1998. The worker said her dismissal was arbitrary and that she had not received a warning or an opportunity to respond. The company said an incident involving alleged verbal abuse of a colleague followed an unsatisfactory period and serious misconduct. The Court said procedural deficiencies may have contributed to the events, but were not by themselves enough to make the dismissal unfair. It recommended resolving the dispute on the basis that the worker accepted her termination as not unfair because it occurred during the agreed probation period.