Mr R Satkunarasa v Tesco Stores Ltd — 2022

The claimant did not attend the hearing and was not represented. The tribunal clerk attempted to contact him using the email address and telephone numbers he had provided, without success, and the hearing proceeded in his absence.

The claim had included complaints of disability discrimination, race discrimination, unfair dismissal, and damages for breach of contract in respect of notice pay. The disability and race discrimination complaints had already stood dismissed after the claimant failed to comply with an unless order requiring further information.

The tribunal dismissed the unfair dismissal complaint because the claimant had less than two years' continuous employment at the effective date of termination and therefore lacked the required service under section 108 of the Employment Rights Act 1996. The notice pay breach of contract complaint was dismissed under Rule 47 because the claimant failed to attend and had provided insufficient details; the tribunal also stated that, on the information before it, it would in any event have dismissed that complaint as unfounded.