ETZ 4(WR) EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 8000490/2025 Preliminary Hearing by Cloud Video Platform at Edinburgh on and September 2025 Employment Judge: M A Macleod Mr L Bellinati v Amazon UK Services Limited — 2024

The Tribunal first addressed whether the claimant had qualifying service to bring an unfair dismissal claim. It found that, before 4 December 2022, he worked at the respondent's premises under an agency arrangement with Adecco, was paid by Adecco, and there was no basis to imply a contract of employment with the respondent. His employment with the respondent therefore began on 4 December 2022 and ended on 1 October 2024, leaving him short of the two years' qualifying service required for an unfair dismissal claim.

The unfair dismissal claim was dismissed for want of jurisdiction, and the Tribunal did not need to decide whether that claim had been presented in time. The judge also directed that the issue of whether the claimant was a disabled person under the Equality Act 2010 would be reserved for the final hearing because of concerns raised about the judge's personal knowledge of doctors connected with a medical letter in the bundle.

For the discrimination claims, the Tribunal found that the claim form and later submissions included an allegation concerning the appeal outcome of 8 November 2024. The Tribunal held that the discrimination claims were brought to ACAS within three months of that alleged final act and that the question whether earlier alleged acts formed part of a continuing series should be determined after full evidence at the final hearing. It therefore held that it had jurisdiction to hear the disability and race discrimination claims.