Ilyas Yasin Hassan v Royal Mail Group Limited — 2026

The claimant, a Muslim LGV driver of black African and black British race based at Royal Mail Group Limited's Midlands Super Hub, brought five complaints arising from an incident on 6 September 2023 between himself and a colleague while he was praying, and from the respondent's subsequent handling of that incident and his grievance and bullying-and-harassment complaint. The case was heard over five hearing days in February 2026 before Employment Judge Hutchings sitting with two non-legal members.

The Tribunal found unanimously that none of the complaints — direct religion or belief discrimination, direct race discrimination, harassment related to religion or belief, harassment related to race, and victimisation — were well founded, and dismissed each of them. On victimisation specifically the Tribunal found that the conduct relied on (including the way the grievance appeal was handled and a heavy-handed approach by a manager to a separate trailer-door incident) had not been because of the protected acts the claimant relied on. The Tribunal applied Shamoon v Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary on the test for detriment.