The employee, Arianne Plumbly, said while she was on sick leave, the MP left a series of voicemails threatening to fire her unless she returned to work.
According to BBC reports, one voicemail left by Allan said: “I’m advising you to work as normal or resign. We all know you’re not ill.”
In another voicemail Allan went on to blast Plumbly who worked part-time at a pub, saying: “You’ve been nauseous day after day. I don’t know you’re, if this is some sort of alcohol problem or whatever it is, but it’s not a very good excuse.”
Plumbly, formerly Allan’s senior constituency caseworker, said she was ill for two days in September with a “terrible cough and then I got a gum infection. My doctor told me to have four weeks off. That’s when she threatened to sack me.”
Plumbly, 26, who is currently unemployed, said she was dismissed “without reason” in September before her contract was due to finish in December.
Allan, however, who said youth unemployment as a “major issue” shortly after winning the Shropshire seat, told the Evening Standard: “Arianne Plumbly was dismissed from her employment with Lucy Allen, MP in Telford, after four months’ employment, for gross misconduct following misuse of the Parliamentary email system, persistent unauthorised absenteeism, refusal to follow a reasonable instruction and rudeness to residents.”
A Tory Party spokesman confirmed the complaints were being dealt with “appropriately and sympathetically.”
Just a few days ago, Allan, who previously worked as a chartered accountant and won with a majority of 730 after beating Labour’s David Wright, made headlines for allegedly faking a death threat by modifying a message from a constituent.
The MP posted an email from a constituent ending with the words “unless you die” on Facebook. Shortly thereafter, the constituent denied writing the three words and Allan then admitted to accidentally amending the email.
“I posted actual comments made to me on the same day, although not in the same email. Comments were added to the post as they came in. I posted them to show examples of the type of unacceptable online abuse that comes in most days and that most people tolerate silently,” she wrote in a Facebook post.
Allan said the comments were not posted to discredit anyone and the Facebook post containing the email was removed.
