In person For the v Ms. S. Hoare - Solicitor — 2025

The claimant brought claims for notice pay, holiday pay and other payments arising from the construction of his employment contract. The tribunal recorded that the accommodation allowance claim had been withdrawn, and that the remaining notice and holiday pay issues turned on whether the claimant was entitled to a longer notice period than the respondent had paid.

The tribunal found that the claimant was still in his probationary period when written notice was given, so clause 3.2 of the contract applied rather than the post-probation notice provisions in clause 9.2. It accepted that, in the educational context, a term's notice meant 12 weeks, and concluded that the claimant had been lawfully paid in lieu of that notice.

Because the claimant was not entitled to the longer notice period, the tribunal also found that no further holiday pay accrued during that period. The notice pay and accrued holiday pay claims were dismissed, and the respondent's costs application was also dismissed.