MRS A. P. VERONA v Qatar Airways Group Qcsc — 2021

This was a remote hearing before Employment Judge P Klimov sitting alone. The tribunal refused the respondent's applications to strike out the claimant's complaints of unfair dismissal, redundancy pay, and disability discrimination, and also refused the respondent's application for a deposit order in relation to those complaints. The judgment does not determine the merits of those claims; it only records that the applications to remove them at this stage were not granted.

The tribunal found that the claimant's continuous service with the respondent began on 17 April 2019. It identified the material date under s.97(3) ERA 1996 as 9 April 2021 and held that the effective date of termination, and relevant date, was 16 April 2021 under s.97(2) and s.86(1)(a) ERA 1996. On that basis, the claimant had been continuously employed for at least two years ending with the effective date of termination for the purposes of s.108(1) and s.155 ERA 1996.

The claimant's notice pay claim was dismissed on withdrawal. The tribunal also rejected the claimant's first claim, case number 2201073/2021, under Rule 12(1)(d) of the Employment Tribunals Rules of Procedure 2013 because the claim form stated that an early conciliation exemption applied when it did not. No monetary award was made in this judgment.