Interesting Employment Judgments released – 08.01.2018 to 14.01.2018

In the latest of our series of posts on Employment Tribunal judgments released, we examine eight Employment Tribunal judgments released in the last week (between 8 January 2018 and 14 January 2018) that our solicitors found interesting:

  1. Mr G Yildiz v British Broadcasting Corporation: 2206294/2016 and 2200913/2017 – the Employment Tribunal held that the Respondent (the BBC) had not discriminated against the Claimant or subjected him to any detriment because he had made protected disclosures, but held that he had been constructively dismissed (Employment Tribunal judgment)
  2. Mr S George v Stage Electrics Partnership Ltd: 1400513/2017 – the Employment Tribunal held that the Respondent had failed to carry out the necessary investigations to determine whether the Claimant would properly recover from a back injury before dismissing him (Employment Tribunal judgment)
  3. Mr Charles Christopher Barnes v Robinsons of Worcester Aggregates Ltd: 1301425/2017 – the Employment Tribunal held that the Claimant had been unfairly dismissed and discriminated against by the Respondent when he was dismissed on allegations that he had brought the Respondent into disrepute (Employment Tribunal judgment)
  4. Mr S Cambridge and others v Unipart Automotive Ltd (In Administration) and Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy: 1305629/2014 – the Employment Tribunal held that it was unable to make a determination as to whether the Respondents’ defence had any prospects of success as none of the parties attended and no evidence was placed before it (Employment Tribunal judgment)
  5. Mrs L Wilcox v Nationwide Diamond Contracts Ltd: 1800972/2017 – the Employment Tribunal held that the Claimant had been unfairly dismissed by the Respondent and that her contract of employment was not void due to illegality (Employment Tribunal judgment)
  6. Miss SL West v Enhance Life Ltd: 2404973/2017 – the Employment Tribunal held that the Claimant had been unfairly dismissed and discriminated against when she was dismissed for the reason of redundancy, awarding her over £6,000 (Employment Tribunal judgment)
  7. Ms S Cummings v Southern Health NHS Trust: 1400037/2017 – the Employment Tribunal held that the Respondent had not discriminated against the Claimant or victimised her when it failed to uphold her grievance (Employment Tribunal judgment)
  8. Mrs C Oram v Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust: 1400991/2017 – the Employment Tribunal held that the Claimant had been unfairly and wrongfully dismissed when she was dismissed from the Respondent on allegations that she had defrauded it (Employment Tribunal judgment)
  9. Ms C Bickerstaff v The Royal British Legion: 1401026/2016 and 1400719/2017 – the Employment Tribunal held the Claimant’s ‘whistleblowing’ claim and held that she had been constructively dismissed. The Tribunal also awarded damages for personal injury (Employment Tribunal judgment)
  10. Mr W Dean v John Reid & Sons (Strucsteel) Ltd: 1400458/2017 – the Employment Tribunal held that the Claimant’s claim for unfair dismissal succeeded after he had been dismissed on allegations of breaching confidentiality (Employment Tribunal judgment)