Stuart Joyce GMB Trade Union & others Daniel Grainger & others Paul Metcalfe v Fablink (Evenwood) Ltd in Administration Interested Party: Secretary of State for Business and Trade — 2026

By consent, the Tribunal ordered Fablink (Evenwood) Ltd in Administration to pay a protective award under section 189(3) of the 1992 Act. The award was equivalent to 90 days' remuneration beginning on 7 January 2025 and covered the individual claimants in Schedule A who worked at the Evenwood site and were dismissed as redundant between 7 and 31 January 2025.

The award also covered employees within the collective bargaining agreement between GMB and the respondent who worked at Evenwood and were dismissed as redundant during the same period, including but not limited to the employees in Schedule B. The agreement covered hourly paid employees up to and including Team Leaders, while excluding Supervisors, Office Employees, Managers and Personal Contract Holders. The individual claims of the Schedule B claimants were withdrawn.

The Employment Protection (Recoupment of Jobseeker's Allowance and Income Support) Regulations 1996 applied, with a protected period of 90 days beginning on 7 January 2025. Subject to the preferential-debt categories in Schedule 6 to the Insolvency Act 1986, payments made by the respondent rather than the Secretary of State were to be paid as an unsecured dividend. No order for costs was made, and the judgment recorded no fixed monetary total.