(sitting alone) Mr R McArthur v Boquhan Estates Limited — 2017

On 3 October 2017, Employment Judge Mary Kearns, sitting alone in Glasgow, determined a preliminary issue that all six claimants were employed by Boquhan Estates Limited. No response had been presented to the claims, and the judge then issued judgment on the remaining issues.

For the first claimant in case 4100537/2017, the tribunal held that the respondent breached the contract of employment by failing to give notice of termination and ordered £4,200 in compensation. It also found an unauthorised deduction from wages and ordered £1,750. The tribunal further found that the first claimant was dismissed by reason of redundancy and ordered a redundancy payment of £10,500.

The second claimant received the same findings on breach of contract and unauthorised deduction from wages, with awards of £4,200 and £1,750 respectively, and a redundancy payment of £9,450. The third claimant likewise succeeded on breach of contract and wages, with awards of £4,200 and £1,750, and was awarded £10,500 as a redundancy payment.

The fourth claimant was awarded £4,537 for breach of contract, £1,890 for unauthorised deduction from wages, and £8,316 as a redundancy payment. The fifth claimant was awarded £1,400, £1,750, and £2,100 on the same three claims. The sixth claimant was awarded £1,991 for breach of contract, £830 for unauthorised deduction from wages, and £4,977 as a redundancy payment. The total of the monetary awards across the six claimants was £76,091.