In person For the v Respondent — 2019

The claimant worked for HHGL Limited in a services sales floor role from 29 April 2018 to 5 July 2018 and was summarily dismissed for gross misconduct following an incident on 15 June 2018 involving trolleys and items spilling onto the store floor. The judgment notes that the claimant had brought four closely related claims across linked case numbers, including unfair dismissal, age, disability and sex discrimination, protected disclosure, redundancy payment, and claims described as other payments and arrears of pay.

The tribunal had ordered the claimant to provide a dated list of the events said to amount to age, disability and sex discrimination, and then made an unless order when that information was not provided. The claimant said he had been in hospital for much of January to March 2019 and later said he was under hospital care and homeless for a period, but the tribunal found he could have provided the required information between 4 April 2019 and 8 May 2019 and had not done so. The strike-out order for the discrimination claims therefore stood, and the age, disability and sex discrimination claims were struck out.

The protected disclosure claim was struck out because it had not been set out in the claim forms and the claimant could not explain what disclosures had been made, to whom, or when. The claim for other payments and arrears of pay also failed because there was no credible evidence supporting the allegation that the claimant had worked without being clocked in. The unfair dismissal and redundancy payment claims were dismissed because the claimant had not been employed for two years, and the judgment concluded that all claims were dismissed with no remaining issues to be heard.