Claimant v Amazon UK Services Limited — 2022

The tribunal held that the only claims properly before it were direct sex, age and race discrimination claims about the respondent's delay in moving the claimant back from the Stow Department to the Receive Department. The claimant sought to raise claims about the original move to Stow and indirect age and sex discrimination, but the tribunal said those would require permission to amend and indicated that any such application would be refused under the Selkent principles.

For the direct age discrimination claim, the tribunal found that the pleaded case and further information did not identify a comparator or set out key facts from which age discrimination could be inferred. For the direct sex discrimination claim, the tribunal noted that one person said to have declined a request was a woman and that several colleagues whose requests were granted were also women.

For the direct race discrimination claim, the tribunal found that the claimant's comparator evidence did not support the allegation and in some respects undermined it, including because several named comparators appeared to have Romanian-origin names and the claimant was unclear about their national background. The tribunal concluded that the claims were assertions unsupported by facts capable of establishing a prima facie case, and struck them out as having no reasonable prospect of success.