In person For the v Riverside Rooms Catering Company Ltd — 2024

The claimant, Mr Luke Foster, was employed by Riverside Rooms Catering Company Limited from 14 October 2019 until 19 May 2023, when he was dismissed by reason of redundancy. The claim was presented on 3 October 2023 after ACAS Early Conciliation between 27 and 29 September 2023. The proceedings were re-served twice on the respondent, and no response had been entered.

The tribunal explained that the only claim in time was the redundancy payment claim. The claimant said he had an issue going back to lockdown about holiday pay, but the judgment records that those details were not in the claim form and that any such claim would in any event have been well out of time. The tribunal therefore recorded that it did not have jurisdiction to determine any other monetary claims because they had been presented outside the statutory time limit.

On the redundancy claim, the tribunal ordered the respondent to pay the claimant £1,200 in respect of a redundancy payment. The judgment also records that the respondent remained active with a proposal to strike off, but was not yet in insolvency, so the claimant was directed to contact the insolvency practitioner and the Insolvency Service if payment proved difficult.