Mr H Smith v R E Grafton Limited — 2019

The claimant, Mr H Smith, was the respondent's sales director from 21 October 1997 until his dismissal without warning on 22 June 2019. The respondent did not file a response, did not attend, and was not represented. The tribunal therefore entered judgment for unfair dismissal, balance of notice pay, holiday pay and unauthorised deduction of wages. It also recorded that the claimant's redundancy pay claim was subsumed within the unfair dismissal claim.

At remedy, the tribunal awarded an unfair dismissal total of £27,123.49 subject to recoupment rights. It calculated a basic award of £11,812.50, then added future loss for the period from 22 June 2019 to 30 July 2019, a further six months' future loss from 31 July 2019, pension loss for those periods, £320 for the balance of an 18-month broadband contract, and £500 for loss of statutory industrial rights. The tribunal said the claimant had earned approximately £650 per month from 31 July 2019 onward when assessing future loss.

The tribunal separately awarded £3,444.16 for the balance of notice pay, using 47 days at £73.28 per day. It awarded £1,131.68 for 11 days' untaken holiday at £102.88 per day, and £1,612.16 for unpaid wages covering 1 June 2019 to 22 June 2019. The total monetary outcome recorded in the judgment is £33,311.49.