Sales Lead Secrets

Sales and Lead Generation Made Easy

Can I take legal action..??

I recently got the sack from my job this month, but i wasn’t given any notice or anything. the reason i got the sack was because of my poor performance. it was a sales role. being sacked for poor performance is understandable, when you receive adequate training before hand etc. yet i had no previous sales experience, and was advised that i would get training, as in the job description. can i sue for unfair dismissal?
Also there was no contract signed or anything like that after i got the job the only thing i was asked to do was to fill out an application form, and as for having a trial, all he said to me was that he would give me 3 or 4 weeks to get used to the job etc.
And i got sacked at the end of my third week.

How long had you been there? If less than one year, you do not have full employment rights. They should still pay you (for one week) in lieu of notice but if you did try to take them to a tribunal you wouldn’t get very far.

Had you been there more than a year, then yes, you could have a case for unfair dismissal but regardless of what training you’d had, it would be pretty poor on your part if you were still incapable of doing the job after more than a year so again, you wouldn’t get very far.

My advice to you is that you lodge a grievance with the employer to try to get one week’s pay in lieu of notice, but you do it in a nice way so that they’ll still give you a good reference. I very much doubt that you’d get any more than this.

EDIT: Okay having read your Additional Details, you would be entitled to one week’s notice anyway. It doesn’t matter that you didn’t have a contract – a contract exists by verbal agreement and by the fact that you showed up to work and received payment for it. Tell them they owe you a week’s wages.

Humor and Fun In Sales – Sales Training by Winning Sales Habits