Mr N Fairweather and others v Team Precision Pipe Assembles Ltd (In Administration) and The Secretary of Sate for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: 1600577/2023 and others

EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS
Case No 1600577/2023, 1600713/2023, 1601250/2023
Mr N Fairweather and othersClaimantTeam Precision Pipe Assembles Ltd (In Administration) and The Secretary of Sate for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyRespondent
Employment Judge S MooreIn person for claimantNot represented for respondentDate 3 July 2023

JUDGMENT

[1]The first and second claimants’ complaints under section 189 (1) (d) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (“TULRCA”) of a failure by the first respondent to comply with the requirements of section 188 of TULRCA are well founded.[2]The third respondent’s complaint under section 189 (1) (c) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (“TULRCA”) of a failure by the first respondent to comply with the requirements of section 188 of TULRCA is well founded.[3]The first respondent is ordered to pay, by way of a protective award under S189 (3) of TULRCA, the first and second claimant a payment equivalent to remuneration for the period of 90 days beginning on 2 March 2023.[4]The first respondent is ordered to pay, by way of a protective award under S189 (3) of TULRCA, the former employees of the first respondent employed at its site at Capel Hendre, Ammanford dismissed on or after 2 10.2 Judgment - rule 61 February Case Nos: 1600577/2023, 1600713/2023 & 1601250/2023 March 2023 in respect of whom the claimant trade union was recognised by the respondent for collective bargaining. The award is a payment equivalent to remuneration for the period of 90 days beginning on 2 March 2023.[5]The Employment Protection (Recoupment of Jobseeker’s Allowance and Income Support) Regulations 1996 apply to this award.