A person who claimed two sandwiches in lunch bills has misplaced his unfair dismissal declare in opposition to his former employer, Citibank.

An employment choose dominated the financial institution was entitled to fireside Szabolcs Fekete for gross misconduct after he lied in an bills declare.

Mr Fekete, who labored in monetary crime at Citibank, had claimed he alone ate two sandwiches for lunch, drank two coffees and ate two pasta dishes on a July work journey to Amsterdam. In reality a number of the meals had been shared by his associate.

Under the corporate’s expense coverage journey and meals for spouses cannot be claimed again and all attendees whose meals are submitted for reimbursement should be listed.

In an e-mail to his employer, who queried his expense report, he mentioned “I had two coffees as they were very small”.

One of the sandwiches was eaten for lunch with one other within the afternoon for his dinner, he added, and the sums have been inside the financial institution’s €100 (£86.42) expense restrict.

“I don’t think I have to justify my eating habits to this extent.”

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He mentioned was having private difficulties after the demise of his grandmother, took six weeks of medical go away and was on sturdy remedy when he replied to emails.

After being let go by the lender Mr Fekete introduced the declare to problem his dismissal.

In deciding in favour of Citibank, employment choose Caroline Illing mentioned the difficulty was not “the sums of money involved”, however as an alternative Mr Fekete’s failure to “make a full and frank disclosure”.

“I have accepted that the expense report may have been submitted in error,” she mentioned. “However, I am satisfied that a dismissal in relation to the misrepresentation allegation alone would fall within the band of a reasonable response by a reasonable employer.”

Citi mentioned it was happy with the choice.