Mrs V Keegan v Regal Health and Wellbeing Ltd (trading as The Massage Company) — 2025

The claimant brought complaints of harassment related to sex and/or sexual harassment, and unauthorised deductions from wages, against Regal Health and Wellbeing Ltd (trading as The Massage Company). The case was heard at Reading by video over four days in November 2025 with deliberation in chambers in January 2026 before Employment Judge George with non-legal members Ms H Gunnell and Mr J Vaghela.

The Tribunal unanimously found one harassment complaint well-founded — the Centre Manager's August 2024 comment to the claimant that he liked "girls, short, with blue eyes and a big bust" (LOI 50.c). The complaint had been brought outside the primary three-month time limit but the Tribunal extended time on the just-and-equitable basis, citing the claimant's mental health, family responsibilities and short delay. The remaining harassment complaints were dismissed, partly unanimously and partly by majority (Judge George and Mr Vaghela; Mr Gunnell dissenting).

The unauthorised-deduction-from-wages complaint was dismissed because the £400 training-fee deduction was authorised by the claimant's contract on resignation before the end of probation. The Tribunal further found that the proven harassment was not, in any meaningful sense, the cause of the claimant's resignation, so financial loss did not flow from it. Compensation for injury to feelings caused by the proven act was reserved to a remedy hearing on 13 March 2026.

Source tags (gov.uk)

• Sex Discrimination and Unlawful Deduction from Wages

• section 26 Equality Act 2010
• section 13 Employment Rights Act 1996
• section 123 Equality Act 2010 (just and equitable extension of time)

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