Ms Sleeman of Counsel For the v Respondent — 2020

This was an interim remedy hearing in Mr S Wadsworth v Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, heard in Sheffield on 9 June 2020 before Employment Judge Brain with Miss R Hodgkinson and Mr D Fields. The tribunal recorded that the remedy hearing was adjourned part-heard and would resume on 4 September 2020 for one day. No final liability determination or monetary award was made in this decision.

The tribunal recommended that, by mutual agreement, the claimant’s notice period be extended from 10 June 2020 to 30 September 2020. It also recommended that the parties use reasonable endeavours and that the respondent comply with its duties under sections 20 and 21 of the Equality Act 2010 so that the claimant could take up the Assistant Education Health and Care Planning Coordinator role, including compliance with section 20(11) by recruiting and providing a support worker as an auxiliary aid. The tribunal further recommended reasonable assistance for redeployment during the extended notice period, and it ordered disclosure and reply evidence concerning the claimant’s MASH post, its deletion, and the redundancy and redeployment procedures followed after that deletion.