Ms S Brown v Millharbour Digital Limited in creditors’ voluntary liquidation — 2021

Ms Stephanie Brown began working for Millharbour Digital Limited on 25 May 2016 as a studio artworker and was dismissed on 24 August 2019. The respondent did not enter a response, and the claim was undefended. The tribunal accepted the claimant's evidence and found that she was dismissed by reason of redundancy and that the dismissal was procedurally and substantively unfair.

On remedy, the tribunal found that the claimant was entitled to a redundancy payment of £1,153.86 because of her age and length of service. It also noted that she earned £20,000 per annum, equivalent to £384.62 gross per week, with monthly take-home pay of £1,375.39. She was out of work for two months before starting a new role on 21 October 2019 at a significantly higher rate of pay.

For unfair dismissal, the tribunal awarded £2,750.78 for two months' net pay and £200 for loss of statutory rights, making a compensatory award of £2,950.78. The tribunal limited the award because it considered there was a likelihood that she would have been made redundant in 2020 in any event. It did not make a separate basic award because the redundancy payment was its equivalent, and it recorded that the recoupment provisions did not apply.