Former Toyota service management training manager Greg Sherry was awarded a payout
A former Toyota manager has been awarded $276,000 after he was wrongfully sacked over a work trip where he used company money to buy a pizza.
Greg Sherry worked for the car company for 20 years when he was fired in March 2018 - days before he would have been entitled to $379,268 in redundancy pay.
Toyota fired Mr Sherry after claiming he breached company expense rules amounting to serious misconduct when his wife and two young sons went on the trip - even though they paid for it themselves.
Mr Sherry had received approval from his manager to take his family on his last work trip - purchasing his airfare through the company s e-travel system and his wife and children s tickets on a personal credit card.