{"id":91480,"date":"2026-07-01T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=91480"},"modified":"2026-07-01T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:22:00","slug":"carer-who-took-lonely-patient-home-for-family-new-years-day-dinner-sacked-for-act-of-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/01\/carer-who-took-lonely-patient-home-for-family-new-years-day-dinner-sacked-for-act-of-kindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Carer who took lonely patient home for family New Year&#8217;s Day dinner sacked for act of kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA26YUNZ.img?w=634&h=423&m=6\" alt=\"A carer who invited a lonely, disabled patient to join his family's New Year's Day dinner was sacked, a tribunal heard (stock photo)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A carer who invited a lonely, disabled patient to join his family\u2019s New Year\u2019s Day dinner was sacked for the \u2018act of kindness\u2019, an employment tribunal heard. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/carer-who-took-lonely-patient-home-for-family-new-year-s-day-dinner-sacked-for-act-of-kindness\/ar-AA26YKEn?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a45491fa3734208836be53abc332aa3&ei=35\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A carer who invited a lonely, disabled patient to join his family\u2019s New Year\u2019s Day dinner was sacked for the \u2018act of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Care-worker.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91481,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91480\/revisions\/91481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}