Miss Victoria Roskams v Reform 2025 Limited Heard: by video — 2025

The Tribunal considered at a preliminary hearing whether the Claimant was an employee, in employment for Equality Act purposes, a worker, or a worker under the extended protected disclosure definition in section 43K ERA. The Claimant had brought complaints including unfair dismissal by reason of protected disclosure, protected disclosure detriment, wrongful dismissal, disability discrimination, sex discrimination, harassment related to sex, victimisation, and unauthorised deductions from wages.

The Tribunal found that there was no contract between the parties and, in any event, it would not have found the necessary mutuality of obligation, control, or personal service for employee status. It considered the Claimant's activities for the Respondent as a political party to be activities in furtherance of aligned political aims, rather than work in the usual sense.

The Tribunal also found that the Claimant was not employed under section 83 EqA, was not a worker under section 230 ERA, and did not fall within section 43K ERA. It therefore held that it had no jurisdiction to consider the complaints and dismissed them.