Sacked for ‘taking binned magazine’

A 53-year-old airline security man said yesterday that he was sacked for taking a €4.50 copy of Time magazine off an aircraft because “management was out to get me”.

On the third day of an unfair dismissal claim case at the Employment Appeals Tribunal, Tim Marks said “there was a definite campaign to get me just because I saw fit to raise concerns over the work environment” at ICTS Ireland’s operation at Shannon Airport.

Former employee of ICTS Ireland Ltd, Mr Marks was fired on November 1, 2014, for the theft of the magazine from a rubbish bag on the stairwell of a United Airlines aircraft at Shannon Airport on October 22.