Mr M Ramzi v Great Harvest Foods Ltd — 2025

The tribunal found that Mr Ramzi was employed by Great Harvest Foods Ltd as a delivery driver from 4 August 2024 to 5 October 2024. It rejected his case that he had started in July 2024 as a manager, preferring the WhatsApp evidence, payslips and P45 material. The tribunal also found that the respondent dismissed him on 5 October 2024 for gross misconduct after he accepted £1,435 from a catering client directly into his own bank account without authorisation, and that the respondent later deducted that sum from his final pay.

On the protected disclosure dismissal claim, the tribunal held that Mr Ramzi did not prove that he had made the disclosures listed at the case management hearing. His witness statement did not address those alleged disclosures, his oral evidence introduced a different account about two colleagues' health and safety, and the WhatsApp messages did not support any protected disclosure case. The tribunal found that a complaint about cockroaches had been raised and dealt with, but no qualifying public interest disclosure was proved. The automatic unfair dismissal claim was therefore dismissed.

The tribunal also dismissed the claim for unpaid notice pay, holding that summary dismissal was justified because the conduct amounted to gross misconduct and a repudiatory breach. The holiday pay claim failed because Mr Ramzi produced no evidence of unused statutory holiday or of being prevented from taking it. The unlawful deduction from wages claim succeeded because the respondent accepted there was no written contractual term and no prior written consent permitting the £1,435 deduction, and the tribunal rejected the implied-term argument. The claimant was awarded £1,435.00.