Mr Algis Anglickas v Amazon UK Services Limited — 2021

The claimant brought complaints of unfair dismissal and discrimination on grounds of age, religion or belief, race, and disability. The tribunal recorded that his employment ended on 14 March 2018, that the respondent's case was that he resigned, and that the claimant disputed this. The tribunal found that the unfair dismissal claim could not proceed because the claimant did not have two years' qualifying service.

The tribunal found that the age, race, and religion or belief discrimination allegations concerned alleged eye scanning by colleagues in 2016 and 2017, with no conduct after 3 January 2018. Those claims were therefore four and a half months out of time. Treating termination of employment as the start point for the disability discrimination claim, that claim was two months out of time.

Although the tribunal found that the claimant had actively pursued the claim after case management orders and had substantially complied with directions, it declined to extend time on a just and equitable basis. It found that the delays were substantial, that the claimant had not advanced good reasons for the delay in presenting the claims, and that delay would affect the cogency of evidence. The claims were struck out.