{"id":1446,"date":"2010-02-27T05:53:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T05:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2010-02-27T05:53:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T05:53:14","slug":"newspaper-boy-was-not-employee-and-so-could-not-claim-unfair-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1446","title":{"rendered":"Newspaper boy was not employee, and so could not claim unfair dismissal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1447\" style=\"width:150px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Myles_Bebbington_516982a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Myles_Bebbington_516982a-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>Newspaper boy Myles Bebbington<\/div>\r\n<\/div>The Employment Appeal Tribunal held this week (in Bebbington v Palmer t\/a Sturry News Employment Appeal Tribunal &#8211; 23\/02\/2010) that a 15-year-old newspaper boy, working a paper round, was not an employee.<\/p>\n<p>Myles Bebbington was a schoolboy aged 14 when he started doing a paper round for his local newsagent, in Sturry, Canterbury as a &#8220;casual workers&#8221;.  Pay was for work done (usually about 12 deliveries).  There was no sick pay and there were no agreed holidays.<\/p>\n<p>When the boys were asked to be at the shop at 6.30am ready to start their deliveries at 7.00am the boy stopped his round and claimed unfair dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>The Employment Tribunal dismissed the claims on the basis of its finding that Mr Bebbington was not an employee of Sturry News.  Mr Bebbington appealed to the EAT &#8211; but lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newspaper boy Myles Bebbington The Employment Appeal Tribunal held this week (in Bebbington v Palmer t\/a Sturry News Employment Appeal Tribunal &#8211; 23\/02\/2010) that a 15-year-old newspaper boy, working a paper round, was not an employee. Myles Bebbington was a schoolboy aged 14 when he started doing a paper round for his local newsagent, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}