Mr E Harter v Waste Recycling & Decommissioning Ltd (in Creditor’s Voluntary Liquidation) — 2021

On 17 March 2021, Employment Judge McDonald, sitting alone at Manchester by CVP, heard Mr E Harter’s claims against Waste Recycling & Decommissioning Ltd (in Creditor’s Voluntary Liquidation). The respondent did not attend. The tribunal upheld three claims: entitlement to statutory redundancy pay, unpaid accrued holiday entitlement, and breach of contract for failure to pay notice pay.

The tribunal awarded the claimant a redundancy payment of £2,362.50. It also found that he was owed payment for ten days of accrued holiday entitlement, assessed at £1,422 gross, and one month’s notice pay, assessed at £3,750 gross. The holiday pay and notice pay awards were to be subject to tax and national insurance deductions before payment of the net amounts.

The written record notes that reasons were given orally at the hearing and that written reasons would not be provided unless requested. It also includes a notice under the Employment Tribunals (Interest) Order 1990 stating that qualifying sums would carry interest if unpaid after 42 days from the relevant judgment day, but no separate interest amount is quantified in the judgment record.