Iconic Plastics Ltd

Case Summary

The claimant was employed as a driver by a small plastics manufacturing company and was dismissed. The tribunal found the dismissal was unfair and that the claimant was owed unlawful deductions of wages, notice pay, and holiday pay. The claim for direct disability discrimination failed. Compensation will be determined at a remedy hearing.

The claimant was unfairly dismissed because the tribunal found the dismissal occurred without proper procedure. The claims for unlawful deductions of wages, notice pay, and holiday pay succeeded based on the evidence of underpayment. The disability discrimination claim failed as it was not established that the claimant's disability was the reason for dismissal.

• •Whether claimant was unfairly dismissed
• •Whether claimant suffered direct disability discrimination
• •Whether claimant was underpaid wages, notice pay, and holiday pay
• •Effect of failure to provide written statement of particulars of employment

1 EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS Claimant: Mr G Hilmi Respondent: Iconic Plastics Limited Heard at: East London Hearing Centre On: 7 November 2025 Before: Employment Judge Park Representation Claimant: In person Respondent: Mr S Suleyman (director) RESERVED JUDGMENT The Judgment of the Tribunal is that: 1. The claimant was unfairly dismissed. His claim for unfair dismissal succeeds. 2. The claimant’s claims for unlawful deduction of wages, notice pay and holiday pay are all successful. 3. The respondent did not provide the claimant with written statement of particulars of employment and this had not been provided when these proceedings were instigated. His claims for unfair dismissal, unlawful deduction of wages, notice pay and holiday pay all succeed so I must consider what compensation to award due to the lack of written statement of particulars. 4. The claimant’s claim for direct disability discrimination does not succeed and is dismissed. 5. The compensation for the claims that succeeded will be determined at a remedy hearing. The parties will be informed of the date of that hearing. 2 REASONS Claims and issues 1. The claimant submitted his ET1 on 11 September 2024. Within this he said he was pursing claims for disability discrimination and that he was owed notice pay, holiday pay, arrears of pay and other payments. 2. A preliminary hearing was held on 12 June 2025. At that it was clarified that the correct respondent was Iconic Plastics Limited. The issues were discussed and clarified. These were as follows: 2.1. The claimant is disabled due to having been diagnosed with cancer. This is automatically deemed to be a disability. 2.2. The claim was about the claimant’s dismissal. He was pursuing claims for unfair dismissal and direct disability discrimination about the dismissal. 2.3. The claim…