A cancer survivor on sick leave was spied on by private detectives and sacked when his company deemed a video of him passing a hose pipe to a friend to be evidence of “physical activity”.
Alan Jones, 55, was the fifth generation of his family to work for Pilkington’s, a major glass production company in the North West, joining in 1983.
An employment tribunal in Manchester ruled last year he was unfairly dismissed after the company wrongly believed he was doing “physical activity” after being filmed wearing work boots and helping a friend water some flowers.
