Claimant v East London Community College
Outcome
Individual claims
The claimant withdrew his unfair dismissal claim during the hearing. The tribunal dismissed the claim on withdrawal by the claimant.
The tribunal determined it did not have jurisdiction to hear the claimant's claim for a redundancy payment and dismissed the claim for lack of jurisdiction.
The tribunal found that the respondent had made unlawful deductions from the claimant's wages and ordered payment of the full amount claimed by the claimant.
The tribunal found the claimant had 2 days of untaken accrued annual leave at termination and ordered the respondent to pay for this untaken leave.
The tribunal found the respondent had failed to pay the claimant's contractual notice pay and ordered payment of the full notice period entitlement.
Facts
Mr Bassi was employed by East London Community College. His employment ended and he brought claims for unfair dismissal, redundancy payment, unlawful deduction of wages, holiday pay, and notice pay. During a two-day video hearing before Employment Judge Park, the claimant withdrew his unfair dismissal claim and the tribunal found it lacked jurisdiction over the redundancy payment claim.
Decision
The tribunal dismissed the unfair dismissal claim on withdrawal and the redundancy payment claim for lack of jurisdiction. The tribunal upheld the claimant's claims for unlawful deduction of wages (£1,310.01), holiday pay for 2 days untaken leave (£201.54), and notice pay (£1,007.70), awarding a total of £2,519.25 gross.
Practical note
Even where jurisdictional or other barriers prevent some claims proceeding, tribunals can still provide meaningful remedy through successful wages, holiday pay and notice pay claims for unrepresented claimants.
Award breakdown
Case details
- Case number
- 6016103/2024
- Decision date
- 5 March 2025
- Hearing type
- full merits
- Hearing days
- 2
- Classification
- contested
Respondent
- Sector
- education
- Represented
- Yes
- Rep type
- solicitor
Claimant representation
- Represented
- No