Telent Technology Services Ltd

Case No: 3304364/2022 1 EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS Claimant: Mr D Kaggwa Respondent: Telent Technology Services Ltd Heard at: Reading On: 5, 6 - 8 December 2023, 18 & 19 June 2024 and in chambers: 9 July & 2 August 2024 Before: Employment Judge Anstis Ms C M Baggs Ms F Tankard Representation Claimant: Mr O Foy (counsel) Respondent: Ms K Hosking (counsel) RESERVED JUDGMENT The claimant’s claims are dismissed. REASONS A. INTRODUCTION 1. The claimant was employed by the respondent as a Systems Engineer (Level 3) from December 2014 until his resignation which took effect on 23 August 2022. 2. In the period with which this claim is concerned, the claimant was based at the respondent’s Heathrow depot and worked in south London on its contract with Transport for London for maintenance and installation of traffic signals. 3. The claimant’s claims are of race discrimination (direct discrimination and harassment) and unfair constructive dismissal. The parties had prepared for the purposes of this claim an agreed list of issues which is included as appendix 1 Case No: 3304364/2022 2 to this decision. This omits questions of remedy, as this hearing and judgment addresses only questions of liability. 4. For the purposes of his race discrimination claim the claimant refers to himself as black. The parties agreed that as (i) the claimant contacted ACAS on 15 December 2021, (ii) his early conciliation certificate was issued on 25 January 2022 and (iii) he brought his claim on 12 April 2022, any complaint of an act of race discrimination that occurred before 13 December 2021 is brought outside the standard time limit for an individual act of discrimination. 5. This hearing was listed to take...