Ultra Catering Ltd

EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 8001674/2024 Held in Aberdeen on 11 & 12 August, 30 September & 28 November 2025 Employment Judge J M Hendry Mr David Michael Low Claimant In Person Ultra Catering Limited Respondent Represented by Mr A S Khaira JUDGMENT OF THE EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL 1. The claim succeeds and the Tribunal finds that the claimant was unfairly dismissed from his employment with the respondent company for making protected disclosures. 2. The Tribunal awards the claimant a monetary award amounting to Eleven Thousand Two Hundred and Seventy Pounds and Fourteen Pence (£11,270.14) which award will be paid to the claimant by the respondent company. 8001674/2024 Page 2 REASONS 1. The claimant in his ET1 sought findings that he had been unfairly dismissed from his employment because of whistleblowing disclosures he had made. The respondent in their ET3 did not address the issue of unfair dismissal directly. Their position was that they were entitled to move the claimant to another branch and he had refused to go. They said that the whistleblowing was part of a campaign by the claimant to get rid of the Manager in their King Street store in Aberdeen and were ‘baseless’. 2. The case proceeded to a case management hearing on the 10 December 2024. Following that hearing the claimant prepared Better and Further Particulars giving further details of the alleged disclosures. A further case management hearing took place in March but unfortunately the respondent did not appear nor were they represented and a final hearing was arranged to take place in August. A Joint Bundle of Documents was lodged and in addition a separate Bundle (1- 77) by the claimant. Facts 3. The claimant was gi...