999 'Taxi' Staff Lose Job Battle
Three ambulance workers sacked after a 999 crew were diverted to take one of them home from a nightclub have lost their job fight. Margaret Gokce, Denise MacDonald and Margaret Conner were fired for gross misconduct after the Record exposed the "taxi" run.
Emergency control room operator Gokce, 51, of Springburn, Glasgow, was at work when off-duty supervisor Conner, of the city's Scotstoun, called to say MacDonald had taken ill at a Glasgow nightclub.
An ambulance crew found MacDonald, of Bearsden, near Glasgow, drunk and took her home.
During the incident in August2003,the ambulance was delayed in attending a 999 call.
All three women had claimed unfair dismissal.
But the Glasgow tribunal ruled that Conner knew ambulances did not take patients home and Gokce should have reported the request to her manager
Probably a quicker way home than waiting at a Glasgow taxi rank
