Sorry to be the bearer of possibly bad news. Depends on whether he was paid off or not. Hopefully he was not. In which case Hughes would have to sue for breach of contract. He would win because incompetence does not mean gross misconduct. It's only when someone is dismissed for gross misconduct that an employer is entitled to dismiss without notice. If Hughes sues and wins, which is very likely, he wins damages for breach of contract but has to give credit for all earnings since his dismissal. However it would be nice to know from a reliable source that he has not been paid anything yet. I fear however that TF is so racked with guilt at having to sack him that he gave him everything without being asked for it. Tony, a simple tweet to reassure us that you haven't would be nice.
Bit of a contradiction really ..... With Forest looking to further themselves in gaining promotion to the PL and the mention of Hughes as a candidate for manger .............. just doesn't sit right ........... you know what I mean? The only benefit that might occur is that MH may take some of the sh.it he lobbed with us............... and at top dollar too!
If you relieve someone of their duties, tell them to pack their bags and never to set foot on club soil again, don't you have to terminate the contract and pay him off? Otherwise MH could still rock up at training every week as an employee of the club? I imagine its too late for all that....unless they came to an alternative arrangement.
Yes you do. But Hughes has a duty to mitigate his loss by obtaining alternative income. But if we haven't paid him what is due, and he succeeds we get the benefit of his earnings because it reduces the amount of his losses. It's a quirk of English contract law because the wrongdoer benefits from the victim's efforts to reduce his losses. Compensation for breach of contract is assessed on a loss basis not a punishment basis. He gets to the last penny the amount he was promised under the contract. We do not have to pay anything extra to teach us a lesson. Where the argument becomes academic is if we have already paid him what he is due because then he would not have to sue us and any earnings at Forest (or any other club mug enough to swallow the "Joorabchian/Hughes dream team for clubs with ambition" line) would simply be a windfall for him.
Horrible suspicion that the second scenario is true, Yorkshire, but no evidence. It seems there is a 'no blabbing to the press' agreement in place, the silence from him and his team has been exemplary.
I think you'll find that there has been a move towards continuing pay until the manager finds another job rather than a lump sum pay-off. The same would apply to his backroom staff, all would be paid as usual throughout the length of their contracts until they found subsequent employment. If TF has paid all of them off in full he really does need his head examining...
That would be surreal, two ex-Premier clubs in a fight for the worst manager in PL history, you couldn't make it up!...
You pay them every month and stop when they find another job and agree to cancel the current contract. We did the same thing to Holloway years ago when we couldnt afford to pay him off, its called gardening leave.
For all the views we have expressed that Hughes will never work again after the debacle at QPR this season, the fact is he will, and the club will not have paid up the whole of his contract. I'm sure the club will be getting unequivocal legal advice that only a huge discount would justify a settlement. The same applies to Joey Barton,
