First Claimant Mr Williamson, in person For the First v Kace Holdings Ltd (In Creditors Voluntary Liquidation) and Secretary of State for Business, Energy and 1 other — 2024

This was a protective award claim brought by twelve claimants after they were informed on 1 February 2022 that their employment was terminated with immediate effect by reason of redundancy. The tribunal found that the first respondent had 41 employees who were all made redundant on that date, that the claimants were based at the respondent's head office in Winchester, and that the respondent was in creditors voluntary liquidation from 14 February 2022.

The tribunal found that the respondent did not recognise an independent trade union for collective bargaining, did not appoint employee representatives, did not arrange elections for them, and did not undertake any, or any adequate, consultation before the dismissals. Applying section 188 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, the tribunal held that the respondent failed to comply with a number of the statutory requirements for collective redundancy consultation, so the claim was well founded.

The tribunal therefore made a protective award in respect of the twelve named claimants and ordered the respondent to pay remuneration for the protected period of 90 days beginning on 1 February 2022. The judgment and annex explain the recoupment arrangements that apply to the protected award, but the extracted text does not set out the monetary amount payable to each claimant or a total figure.