Mrs J Joyce v Hillview Medical Centre — 2025

Mrs J Joyce worked for Hillview Medical Centre from 1 January 2019 until 28 August 2023 as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner. After she fractured her wrist in March 2023, the tribunal found that the respondent allowed her to work from home, communicated regularly with her about her recovery, and later obtained occupational health input. It rejected the claimant's case that the respondent pressured her to return to work in the practice, ignored her concerns, or imposed a clinic that was more demanding than her normal working pattern.

The tribunal found that the respondent did not breach its duty of care and did not act in a way that destroyed or seriously damaged mutual trust and confidence. It held that the clinics on 1 and 5 June 2023 were set in line with occupational health advice at 75% of contractual hours, and that when the claimant raised concerns on 5 June, the practice manager immediately offered to discuss reducing her hours further. The tribunal also found that no grievance had been raised in a way that engaged the respondent's grievance policy and that there was no failure to follow the ACAS Code. The constructive dismissal claim therefore failed.

On the wages claim, the tribunal accepted the claimant's evidence that she worked from home in March 2023 in amended duties and was not overpaid. It found that the later recalculation of her hours and the August 2023 deduction for 18.5 hours of work was an unauthorised deduction from wages under Part II of ERA 1996. The respondent was ordered to pay the gross sum of £560.74.