A friend of mine is a volunteer manager in a charity shop, managing volunteer workers in the shop. She summarily dismissed one worker for alleged theft. The worker’s sister later returned to the shop with the goods saying that the worker had only taken them to wash them (not uncommon). She also said that the worker would be contacting a lawyer about bringing an unfair dismissal case.

Does employment law apply ? What are the liabilities of the manager and the charity ?

Thanks,

Peter
Peter D