Cleaner fired after eating leftover sandwich she found in law firm conference room

A CLEANER was fired after eating a leftover sandwich she found in a law firm meeting room.

Gabriela Rodriguez, 39, helped herself to the Tesco tuna and cucumber sarnie from a bowl.

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But the single mother was fired from her £13-an-hour job with contractor Total Clean for taking 'customer property'. . . without authority or reasonable excuse.”

Her colleagues demonstrated outside the power station London Solicitors' headquarters in the Devonshires – where top lawyers earn £1.68 million a year.

Elia Petros, from the UVW union which helped her unfair dismissal claim, said: “Cleaning ladies are routinely dismissed on trivial and, we argue, discriminatory grounds such as this.”

Total Clean insisted it had complied with labor laws.

Devonshires said it had not asked for Gabriela's dismissal.

A spokesperson said: “Devonshires has not made a formal complaint against Gabriela or requested any action be taken against her.

'Total Clean conducted their own investigation and the decision to dismiss Gabriela was made without any input or influence from Devonshires.

“This is a private matter between Total Clean and Gabriela.

“But we have made it clear to Total Clean that we would not object, as we never have, to Gabriela joining us if Total Clean changes its position.”