TRAIN DRIVER SACKED FOR HOLIDAY CANNABIS

A TRAIN driver sacked for admitting he had smoked cannabis while on holiday
yesterday claimed a moral victory after an industrial tribunal ruled he was
unfairly dismissed.

Alan Robertson confessed that he had used the drug two months before the
train he was driving was involved in a minor accident at Edinburgh's
Waverley Station. An employment tribunal ruled the company was wrong to
sack Robertson, from Inverness, but decided that he should not be allowed
to return to his job because he had contributed to his dismissal.

Robertson, who had worked for ScotRail since 1984, said: "I feel quite
bitter but I believe I won a moral victory for all ScotRail staff."

Robertson, 38, said he thought smoking drugs while on holiday had nothing
to do with his employer and was "a matter of personal freedom".

A ScotRail spokesman said: "Safety on the railways is an issue that should
not require any debate."