Mr N Ale v Bacerius Investments Ltd and 1 other — 2025

Employment Judge T Brown, sitting at Reading by Cloud Video Platform on 29 January 2025, heard the claimant in person; the respondents did not respond and were not represented despite having been given notice. The judge first amended the respondent's name to Bacerius Investments Ltd and Delesius Investments Ltd, together as Trustees of Sutton Place Property Unit Trust, and held that the Tribunal had jurisdiction because it had not been reasonably practicable for the claimant to present his complaints within three months of the relevant date but he did so within a reasonable further period, with the redundancy payment reference presented in time.

The tribunal upheld each of the claimant's complaints. He was found entitled to a redundancy payment of £10,864.88 and to holiday pay of £1,111.32 gross for annual leave accrued but untaken on termination. The complaint of unauthorised deduction from wages succeeded in the sum of £11,248.40 gross, comprising unpaid wages of £2,414.42 per month for March to June 2022 (£9,657.68) plus overtime of £1,590.72.

The breach of contract claim for 43 days' unpaid notice pay also succeeded, the claimant having been given notice on 20 May 2022 to expire on 30 June 2022 in breach of his contractual entitlement to 12 weeks' notice, producing an award of £3,422.64 gross. The total award was £26,647.24, some of which may be subject to tax and National Insurance as required by law.