Mrs D Wood v Pringle Building Services Limited — 2019

The hearing on 6 December 2019 was attended only by the claimant, who was represented by the CAB. Shortly before the hearing the respondent emailed to say that its managing director was ill with a virus and sought a postponement. Employment Judge Speker refused the adjournment because the application was late, there was no medical evidence, the respondent did not appear to be actively opposing the redundancy claim, and delay would prejudice the claimant.

On the evidence from the claimant and the correspondence before the tribunal, the claimant was found entitled to a statutory redundancy payment and to payment for accrued annual leave. For the redundancy award, the tribunal accepted that she had 13 years' employment and applied the statutory maximum weekly pay of £525.00 rather than her weekly wage of £560.00, producing a redundancy payment of £10,237.50.

The tribunal also ordered payment of outstanding annual leave monies. The operative judgment records that sum as £674.87, while the reasons section refers to £674.00. Interest was ordered to be added to both payments from the date of judgment, but the extracted text does not give a quantified interest figure.