Mrs P Mathews v BAH Employment Ltd (In creditors voluntary liquidation): 1302932/2024
JUDGMENT
[1](1) The Claimant was constructively unfairly dismissed and the Respondent must pay her compensation for unfair dismissal, consisting of a basic award of £2766.(2) The Respondent discriminated against the Claimant because of pregnancy and maternity, contrary to section 18 of the Equality Act 2010, in the following ways:a. failing to carry out a pregnancy risk assessment between September 2022 and March/April 2023;b. having less frequent meetings and telephone calls with the Claimant between September 2022 and March/April 2023;c. not offering keeping in touch or training days between April and October 2023;d. paying the Claimant’s wages late between April and November 2023;e. refusing to do the Claimant’s hair for free from around August 2023;f. deleting the Claimant from a staff group chat in September 2023;g. not inviting the Claimant to a Christmas party in November / December 2023. 1 of 2 Case Number: 1302932/2024(3) The above discrimination is a course of conduct extending over a period in accordance with section 123 of the Equality Act 2010, meaning that the entire discrimination claim was presented within the time limits in that section.(4) The Claimant is awarded and the Respondent must pay her £7,500 in damages for injury to feelings as compensation for discrimination.(5) The total sum that must be paid by the Respondent to the Claimant under this judgment is: £10,266.(6) Summary reasons were given orally at the hearing. Written summary reasons were not requested at the hearing and will not be provided unless requested by any party within 14 days of the sending of this written record of the decision.(7) All judgments apart from those under Rule 51 and any written full reasons for judgments are published, in full, online at https://www.gov.uk/employment- tribunal-decisions shortly after a copy has been sent to the claimant and respondent. JUDGMENT[2](1) This Judgment is made by Employment Judge Camp at the Birmingham Employment Tribunals on 23 April 2026 pursuant to Rule 22 of the Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules 2024.(2) This Judgment is further to the Judgment and the Order made at a hearing on 27 March 2026, the written versions of which were sent to the parties (including the interested party) on 31 March 2026.(3) In that Order, it was explained that, for given reasons, the Tribunal was proposing to issue a judgment in the Claimant’s favour along the lines of this judgment and that if the interested party had any objections to the Tribunal doing this, they should raise those objections in writing within 21 days of 31 March 2026. No such objections have been received by the Tribunal.(4) The Tribunal therefore gives judgment for the Claimant as follows: a. the Respondent must, in addition to the sums it was ordered to pay her in the judgment of 27 March 2026, pay the Claimant a total sum of £2,080, made up of – i. £921 in compensation for accrued but untaken annual leave; ii. £1159 in relation to unauthorised deductions from wages.