article_snippet: A bus driver sacked after testing positive for cocaine has won a substantial pay out by proving the drug came from bank notes handed over by passengers.
article_snippet: Alan Bailes was fired by First Bus after 22 years of employment when Alan Bailes failed a saliva test – despite insisting Alan Bailes has never taken drugs.
article_snippet: Alan Bailes has won a five-figure payout from First Bus after Alan Bailes proved that a saliva test which got Alan Bailes sacked for taking drugs was incorrect.
article_snippet: Alan Bailes, pictured with Alan Bailes daughter Stefanie (right) and Alan Bailes wife Rita (centre) was forced to borrow money after being sacked to cover Alan Bailes mortgage payments .
article_snippet: After a two-and-a-half year legal battle, Mr Bailes, 58, has won a five-figure sum from First Bus, which fired him for ‘gross misconduct’ in June 2012.
article_snippet: It must now pay out after It appeal against a court ruling of unfair dismissal failed.
article_snippet: Alan Bailes has won a five-figure payout from First Bus after Alan Bailes proved that a saliva test which got Alan Bailes sacked for taking drugs was incorrect .
article_snippet: Alan Bailes and Alan Bailes wife, Rita, had to borrow money from friends and family to cover mortgage payments while Mr Bailes and his wife, Rita took the company to an employment tribunal, which ruled he was wrongly dismissed and condemned First Bus’s ‘flawed investigation’.
article_snippet: Last night Alan Bailes said: ‘We’ve been left feeling stressed, incredibly worried and upset, all for something I did
highlights_snippet: Alan Bailes was shocked when test was positive for cocaine and Alan Bailes was sacked .
  
highlights_snippet: Alan Bailes won Alan Bailes employment tribunal and a five-figure payout from First .