Mrs A Handley v Handley Steel Limited — 2025

The tribunal found Mrs A Handley’s unfair dismissal complaint well-founded under Part X Employment Rights Act 1996. It awarded a basic award of £7,615.20 and a compensatory award of £3,901.25, with the compensatory award stated to include a 25% ACAS uplift.

It also found the breach of contract complaint well-founded. The tribunal awarded £4,536.45 for notice pay and benefits, and a further £1,093.05 for failure to provide private medical insurance during the period 1 June 2024 to 5 October 2024. The judgment states that both figures were calculated using gross pay to reflect the likelihood of tax being payable as post-employment notice pay.

The tribunal upheld the complaint of unauthorised deductions from wages under Part II Employment Rights Act 1996 and ordered payment of £5,711.63 for deductions made between 1 June 2024 and 5 October 2024. It also upheld the holiday pay complaint, finding that the respondent failed to pay holiday pay in accordance with regulation 14(2)/16(1) of the Working Time Regulations 1998 and ordering payment of £1,358.10.

The tribunal recorded that the respondent unreasonably failed to comply with the ACAS Code of Practice on Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures 2015 and applied a 25% increase under section 207A of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 to the awards set out above. It further found that the respondent failed to provide a written statement of main terms and conditions compliant with sections 1 and 4 Employment Rights Act 1996 and made an additional award of £507.74 under section 38 of the Employment Rights Act 2002. The judgment states that the recoupment provisions do not apply.