Social media creator sacked for typos & not posting anything for a month WINS £22,000 payout for ‘unfair dismissal’
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A SOCIAL media creator sacked for making typos and not posting anything for a month has won a £22,000 payout. Anita Briggs produced digital content for the National Museums of Scotland for 16 years before she was "unfairly dismissed". Briggs posted about six times a month whereas her colleague would post around 73 times, a tribunal was told.
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She would regularly miss deadlines, make spelling errors and on one occasion failed to produce any content for a whole month. But even when she turned out, her quality of content was “substantially below what was expected”, the hearing unveiled. After failing three performance reviews, Anita was sacked on the spot.
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However, the employment tribunal found Anita had not been given enough warning and awarded her £22,210 in compensation. Anita was hired by the National Museums of Scotland back in 2009 and worked as a digital media content producer. Her role consisted of planning, co-ordinating, and creating new content for the organisations social platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn and X, formerly known as Twitter.
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Russell Dornan, Briggs' manager, put her on an informal personal improvement plan (PIP) in May 2022 after "concerns” with her performance. Briggs then failed to produce any content for all of November 2023 - and posted just six times in December. Although the tribunal added that Briggs had been experiencing a “number of challenging personal issues”.
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