Office worker who 'acted like mythological "siren" to get male colleague to do her work for her' loses unfair dismissal case

An office worker acted like a mythological 'siren' to entice a male colleague into doing her work for her, an employment tribunal heard. Claire Rogers, pictured, acted like a mythological 'siren' to entice a male colleague into doing her work for her, an employment tribunal heard The 35-year-old faced disciplinary action after she was caught sending tasks to her co-worker before submitting his work as her own The tribunal panel noted: 'Email correspondence between MS and … showed that she was sending him tasks to do which fell within her duties and was receiving emails from him with completed work.' Over a six-month period, MS sent Miss Rogers 66 draft decision records involving cases allocated to her, many of which she then uploaded onto the organisation's system. Rogers quit her job at Motability in Harlow before the results of a disciplinary hearing into the matter MS was asked to 'pack that in' as he 'doesn't get his own work done' and was told to stop going over to Miss Rogers' desk. During an investigation into the emails, Miss Rogers said MS claimed he had no work and she gave him non-urgent tasks two or three times a week which she 'thought… was fine'.