Mr I Axe and others v Clugston Construction Ltd (In Administration) and others: 1801515/2020 and others

EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS

Case No 1801515/2020

Between

Mr I Axe & others (see attached schedule)Claimant

R1) Clugston Construction Limited (in Administration) R2) Clugston Services Limited (in Administration) R3) The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyRespondent

Date 7 September 2020

JUDGMENT

[2]Clugston Construction Limited (In Administration); and

[3]Clugston Services Limited (In Administration) AND UPON the parties having agreed to the terms of the Judgment set out below by consent The Judgment of the Employment Tribunal made under Rule 64 of Schedule 1 of the Employment Tribunals (Constitution & Rules of Procedure) Regulations 2013 is that:

[1]Consent 1.1 Permission for the claims presented by the Claimants named in the attached Schedules to this Judgment to proceed against the First and Second Respondents, and the lifting of the moratorium in relation to those claims, is granted by the administrators of the First and Second Respondents.

[2]Protective Award2.1 In relation to the Claimants named in the attached Schedules to this Judgment the First and Second Respondents failed to adequately comply with a requirement of section 188 of the Trade Union & Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 and the claim for a protective award brought under section 189 of the Trade Union & Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 succeeds.

2.2 The First and Second Respondents are ordered to pay remuneration to the Claimants named in the attached schedules for a protected period of 56 days beginning on 06/12/2019 (being the date on which the first of the dismissals to which the complaint relates took effect).

[3]Preferential debts 3.1 Subject to the normal categories of preferential debts set out in Schedule 6 of the Insolvency Act 1986, any payments made by the First and Second Respondents (rather than the Secretary of State) pursuant to this Judgment will be paid as an unsecured dividend, on the same basis and at the same time as the other unsecured creditors of the First and Second Respondents.

[4]Costs There shall be no order as to costs and each party shall bear their own costs in these proceedings. Employment Judge Shepherd Date: 7 September 2020 Schedule of claims: CASE NUMBER CLAIMANT 1801515/2020 MR I AXE 1801516/2020 MR I AXE 1801517/2020 MR D MANSFIELD 1801518/2020 MS A LOWE 1801519/2020 MS C DRAYTON 1801520/2020 MS W HALL 1801521/2020 MS B FRASER 1801522/2020 MR G THOMAS 1801523/2020 MS S KINDER 1801524/2020 MS D ATKINSON 1801525/2020 MR L HILL 1801526/2020 MR B GRANTHAM 1801527/2020 MR M BIRKITT 1801528/2020 MR M NICHOLSON 1801529/2020 MR J ISLE 1801530/2020 MS N FLETCHER 1801531/2020 MR D BIRKITT 1801532/2020 MR C COOPER 1801533/2020 MR O MARRIS 1801534/2020 MR W WATT 1801535/2020 MS A WHITE 1801536/2020 MR P GOULAND 1801537/2020 MR M TUCK 1801538/2020 MR C STRETCH 1801539/2020 MR L PARKER 1801540/2020 MR D LIEW 1801541/2020 MR S HARE 1801542/2020 MS G PALMER 1801543/2020 MR A ATKINSON-TIPLADY 1801544/2020 MR H PASK 1801545/2020 MR G BOSTON 1801546/2020 MR S GARNER 1801547/2020 MR D HAMPTON 1801548/2020 MR T CREASY 1801549/2020 MR N TODD 1801550/2020 MR A WILKINSON 1801551/2020 MR R PASK 1801552/2020 MS K HOLDSWORTH 1801553/2020 MR R DOBSON 1801554/2020 MR B PALMER 1801555/2020 MR S MCGILL 1801556/2020 MR R PRICE 1801557/2020 MR S PRICE 1801558/2020 MR B RICE 1801559/2020 MR P ALTOFT 1801560/2020 MR K THOMPSON 1801561/2020 MR M BURNETT 1801562/2020 MR A FLEET 1801563/2020 MR C SHELLY 1801564/2020 MR G ELLIOTT 1801565/2020 MR W MAZURKIEWICZ 1801566/2020 MR L CLARKSON 1801567/2020 MR R CLARKE 1801568/2020 MR C ROBERTS 1801569/2020 MS L BRADLEY 1801570/2020 MR N BLACKSTOCK 1801571/2020 MR C CAMPBELL 1801572/2020 MR P STOUT 1801573/2020 MS J CARTON 1801574/2020 MS M BEDFORD