Goom Electrical Ltd

Case Summary

The tribunal dismissed the claimant's claims for age discrimination, unlawful deduction of wages, automatically unfair dismissal, breach of contract, and harassment. The case involved issues related to time limits, PCP application, and direct/indirect discrimination.

The tribunal dismissed the claimant's claims on their merits after a full hearing, finding against the claimant on the substantive issues of age discrimination, unlawful deduction of wages, automatically unfair dismissal, breach of contract, and harassment.

• •age_discrimination_direct_and_indirect
• •unlawful_deduction_of_wages
• •automatically_unfair_dismissal
• •breach_of_contract
• •harassment

EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS Claimant: Ms C Ritchie Respondent: Goom Electrical Limited Heard at: Watford On: 14,15,16,17,22,23 April 2025 Before: Employment Judge Cowen Mr R Jewell Mr A Scott Appearances For the claimant: Ms Ritchie (in person) For the respondent: Mr Henry (consultant) RESERVED JUDGMENT 1. The Claimant’s claims for age discrimination, unlawful deduction of wages, automatically unfair dismissal, failure to allow to be accompanied, breach of contract and public interest disclosure detriments are all dismissed. REASONS Introduction 1. The Claimant brought claims of; a. Direct age discrimination, b. Indirect age discrimination, c. Breach of Contract, d. Harassment (related to age) e. Public Interest disclosure detriment, f. Automatically unfair dismissal g. Unlawful deduction from wages h. Failure to allow the employee to be accompanied, 2. The Claimant obtained an Early Conciliation certificate from 9 October 2022 to 11 October 2022. The Claim was issued on 18 October 2022. The Claimant resigned on 27 September 2022 with no notice. The period within the time limit runs backwards to 10 July 2022. Claims which pre-date that date, ought to have been brought to the Tribunal earlier, unless the Tribunal considers that it would not have been reasonably practicable to do so, or it would be just and equitable to extend time, depending on the nature of the claims being made. 3. A list of issues was drawn up at a case management preliminary hearing on 15 June 2023 and was agreed by the parties at the beginning of the final hearing as remaining relevant to the issues to be determined. One or two typos had occurred, which have been corrected in the following list; Time limits 1. Was the claim made to the Tribunal within three months (plus early conciliation extension) of the act to which the complaint relates? 2…