Woman wins almost £10,000 after ‘unfaithful’ husband fired her
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A wife won almost £10,000 in a tribunal after suing her husband for firing her from the pub they ran together. Jacqueline Herling confronted her spouse Stefan after she discovered CCTV footage of a relationship he was having with another employee. A tribunal heard Stefan had an affair with a fellow chef at the ‘very successful’ national park pub he ran with wife Jacqueline.
The mum-of-two said she ‘would not set foot in the pub again’ and reduced her work to ‘occasional duties’, the employment tribunal heard. Mrs Herling had continued to receive her salary for four months after the affair – until her husband issued her with a p45 without her knowledge.
She now successfully sued her partner of 19 years and the family company that owned the pub for unfair and wrongful dismissal, unauthorised pay deductions and victimisation and has been awarded £9,676 in compensation. The Manchester tribunal heard that Mrs Herling started working part-time behind the bar at The Beehive Inn in Combs, Derbyshire, in 2003.
The hearing was told that the couple got together in 2005, and had their first child in 2007, before marrying the following year. The family lived above the pub and ran the venue together with Mrs Herling being paid a ‘nominal’ tax-free salary of £9,000 a year.
The tribunal was told on May 30, 2022, Jacqueline confronted her husband when she found he had been having an affair with the sous-chef. After she did not move out of the pub and kept helping with ‘occasional duties’ such as chopping logs, mowing the lawns and visiting Costco for supplies, they heard.
