An employment tribunal in Birmingham is now into its second week.
It has been brought by a Miss C Jones against Propertymark.
She alleges unfair constructive dismissal and protected disclosure – or whistleblowing.
The tribunal sat four days last week and recommenced yesterday. It is due to sit again until Thursday this week.
Propertymark confirmed the tribunal is ongoing but did not comment.
Comments (9)
A law student I’m working with attended the tribunal as an observer yesterday and telephoned me to say she could not believe the behaviour of David Cox the MD of Propertymark
Despite Chris Hamer and David Cox failing to explain or respond to a range of allegations, and apparently admitting to many, David Cox begins shouting, arguing and talking across the tribunal judge and panel members We and the industry as a whole really need to be concerned when we have trade bodies and individuals like this leading and representing us These Individuals forget it is members hard-earned subscription payments that pay their wages Good luck to the lady making the claim – let’s hope it brings about some badly needed changes in personnel at Propertymark
It’s a 9 day tribunal and each of the management team has representation from Deminos, Propertymarks HR consultants – how much is this costing to defend this bunch?
“Despite Chris Hamer and David Cox failing to explain or respond to a range of allegations, and apparently admitting to many,David Cox begins shouting, arguing and talking across the tribunal judge and panel members”
If the above admission is true and on the record of the tribunal, I would be most grateful if your contact could email me via PIE, stating what was said and by whom. I firmly believe that along with the items I raised above, there are a number of other areas where I maintain that the NAEA/ NFoPP either failed to follow their own rules/ the law including the rigging of the Presidential Election process in 2017.
PIE published these stories at the time. https://propertyindustryeye.com/?s=naea+chris+wood+presidency
Thank you.
Just a few of the serious questions that remain unanswered by Propertymark.
Email to Chris Hamer in 2017.
On 29 Nov 2017, at 19:03, Chris Wood <chris.wood@pdq-property.co.uk> wrote:
I know Christina quite well and I regard her as a decent, honest, intelligent and straight talking person. I wish her all the very best with her claim. I won’t comment further on Christina’s story while the case is ongoing however, I will say that at the time I first became aware of her complaint, a number of Propertymark employees, past and, at the time, serving, contacted me about the work culture at Propertymark, claims of bullying by very senior people, along with some very serious concerns and allegations about large payoffs, NDAs’ and significant accountancy discrepancies. My own experiences and allegations about rule breaking and ‘activities’ of and by the board have been openly documented on these pages and in my blog.
Hoping C Jones gets justice for the appalling way Propertymark treat not only their employees but their members too! A toxic, bullyboy environment led my the smiling assassin, Chris Hamer and supported by his gofers, David Cox and Mark Haywood! Your are an absolute disgrace to the property field.
What a useless organisation. It’s become a personal fiefdom run by a few for a few. Does nothing for its members except provide a crap logo and equally crap brand that adds no value to anything. Leave!!
Let’s hope Christina is vindicated…. the fact that Propertymark took no action when Countrywide snaffled millions of client money to plug some holes in the sinking ship should be dealt with.
its time there was a bit more honesty about the organisation…. it purports to be a membership body but is really an aggressive business positioning itself to regulate the industry after a bloody battle with RICS… the members (and it would appear staff will just be viewed as collateral damage.
So Christina worked within the disciplinary department for many years conducting most of the disciplinary panels If not all of them
She was targeted by Propertymark after standing up to them on regulation matters over allowing a number of corporate agencies get away with murder to encourage their membership.
this is all part of a coup by Chris Hamer who has taken over propertymark and turned in to a show with most recent people including mark Hayward retiring and david Viv applying for his job currently.
whistle blowing for what?