Royal Mail Group Ltd

Case Summary

The claimant brought complaints of whistleblowing detriment under section 47B of the Employment Rights Act 1996 and a disability discrimination claim under the Equality Act 2010 against Royal Mail Group Limited. The tribunal dismissed the substantive whistleblowing complaints as not well founded and struck out other whistleblowing complaints and the disability discrimination claim as brought outside the applicable time limits.

The tribunal found the substantive whistleblowing complaints were not well founded on their merits. Other whistleblowing complaints and the disability discrimination claim were struck out as they fell outside the applicable statutory time limits for bringing claims.

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• •Whether respondent contravened section 47B Employment Rights Act 1996 by failing to pay usual wages whilst absent from work
• •Whether respondent failed to acknowledge, take seriously, properly report or investigate accident report
• •Whether respondent failed to incorporate claimant's proposed amendments to accident report
• •Whether respondent generally failed to respond to claimant's concerns
• •Disability discrimination claim under Equality Act 2010

Case No. 2500131/2025 1 EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS Claimant: D Pouton Respondent: Royal Mail Group Limited HELD AT: Newcastle ON: 20 – 22 April 2026 BEFORE: Employment Judge Aspden M Gallagher D Winter REPRESENTATION: Claimant: Respondent: Mr Cooper, union representative Mr Ahmed, counsel JUDGMENT The unanimous judgment of the Tribunal is: 1. The complaints that the respondent contravened section 47B of the Employment Rights Act 1996 by doing the following things are not well founded and are dismissed: 1.1. failing to pay the claimant’s usual wages whilst absent from work; 1.2. failing to acknowledge or take seriously or properly report or investigate the claimant’s report of an accident at work; 1.3. failing to incorporate the claimant’s proposed amendments to the accident report in relation to the incident which occurred on 29 August 2024; 1.4. generally failing to respond to the claimant’s concerns. 2. The claimant’s other complaints that the respondent contravened section 47B of the Employment Rights Act 1996 are struck out because the tribunal does not have jurisdiction to determine them as they were brought outside the time limit in section 48 of the Employment Rights Act 1996. 3. The claimant’s claim of disability discrimination made under the Equality Act 2010 is struck out because the tribunal does not have jurisdiction to determine it as it was brought outside the time limits in section 123 of the Equality Act 2010. Employment Judge Aspden Date____22 April 2026_______ Case No. 2500131/2025 2 Notes Summary reasons for the judgment were given orally at the hearing. Written summary reasons will not be provided unless a party asked for them at the hearing or makes a written request which the Tribunal receives within 14 days of sending this written record of the decision.