Joyners Plants Ltd

Case No: 6010525/2025 1 EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS Claimant: Mr R Maddicott Respondent: Joyners Plants Limited Heard at: Bristol (by CVP) On: 7 and 8 January 2025 Before: Employment Judge Halliday REPRESENTATION: Claimant: Mr B Maddicroft Respondent: Mr A Joyner, director of the Respondent RESERVED JUDGMENT 1. The complaint of unfair dismissal is well-founded. The claimant was unfairly dismissed. 2. The amount of compensation will be determined at a remedies hearing 3. The complaint of unauthorised deductions from wages is well-founded. 4. The respondent shall pay the claimant £230, which is the gross sum deducted. The claimant is responsible for the payment of any tax or National Insurance. REASONS Introduction and basis of claim 1. The claimant, Mr Maddicott, was employed by the respondent until he left his employment on 14 January 2025 following his resignation on that day. Case No: 6010525/2025 2 2. The Claimant claims that he has been unfairly dismissed. He claims that he resigned from his employment as a consequence of a fundamental breach on the part of the respondent of both an express verbal contractual term relating to an offer to pay for an intensive driving course and/or the implied term within his contract relating to trust and confidence. The claimant asserts that even if the offer to pay for driving lessons was not a verbal contractual agreement, he relied on the offer of driving lessons in agreeing to relocate permanently to the Exeter site and clock on there. This meant an additional hour’s unpaid travel (half an hour each way) as he had previously clocked in at the Newton Abbot site. He also relies on the fact that (i) the Mr A Joyner told him to f*** off in a meeting on the 14 January 2025 and (ii) told him that he would need to return to the Newton Abbott site on reduced wages, as an alternative to the agreed arrangements as breaches of the implied d...