Mr M Mak v Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and 1 other — 2018

The claimant brought claims for outstanding wages for May 2018, notice pay and a redundancy payment. The second respondent had entered creditors' voluntary liquidation, and the first respondent made written submissions confirming payments of £1,868.72 for statutory redundancy pay and £586.28 net for wages from 1 June 2018 to 12 June 2018.

The tribunal found that the claimant's employment with the second respondent ended on 12 June 2018. The unauthorised deduction from wages and breach of contract claims should have been brought by 11 September 2018, but the claim was not issued until 16 April 2019 and Early Conciliation was not begun until late February 2019. No explanation was given as to why it was not reasonably practicable to bring those claims in time, so the tribunal held that it had no jurisdiction to award further sums.

The redundancy payment claim was also out of time because there was no indication that the claimant had made a written claim to the employer within six months of 12 June 2018. The tribunal recorded that this was academic because the statutory redundancy payment had already been paid, and no further sums were awarded.