Pub manager loses employment tribunal case

A pub manager has lost an employment tribunal after it heard Okell's Inns sacked him for not declaring a criminal conviction.

Paul Shane Tierney Miller moved from London to manage the British on North Quay in Douglas last August.

The heading was told he hadn't declared a spent conviction on a license application - which he should have done under Manx law - and so police planned to object to him becoming a responsible person on the pub's license, leading to his dismissal.

Chairman Douglas Stewart rejected his claim he'd been sacked for whistleblowing.