Ms S Summersgill v Home Estate Agents (Urmston) Ltd: 2406686/2024
JUDGMENT
[1](1) The claimant’s claim of unfair dismissal is well-founded and succeeds. The Respondent is ordered to pay her basic award/redundancy payment in the sum of £6,750.(2) The claim for holiday pay for 10 days’ holiday accrued but not taken on termination is well-founded and succeeds. The Respondent is ordered to pay £900.(3) In breach of contract, the claim the Respondent failed to pay employer’s contributions at the rate of 3% of gross pay into the claimant’s stakeholder pension from May 2023 to the date of dismissal succeeds and the Respondent is ordered to pay the sum of £877.50.(4) In breach of contract, the Respondent failed to pay the claimant’s car lease payments at £450 per month from June 2024. In respect of the period 1 June 2024 to 31 August 2024, the Respondent is ordered to pay the sum of £1,350 being unpaid car payments which the claimant made and which the Respondent agreed would be reimbursed to her.(5) Following her dismissal, the Claimant sought alternative employment which she obtained with effect from 8 March 2025 She claims compensation for the losses of her salary and benefits from 1 September 2024 to 8 March 2025, a period of 27 weeks. Her compensatory award is therefore £12,150 gross salary, plus 3% employer’s pension contributions (£364.50), and four months in respect of the car lease, having been able to replace the lease agreement on more favourable terms with effect from January 2025. The sum of £1,800 is therefore awarded for the loss of the benefit of the car. The Respondent is ordered to pay to the claimant the total sum of £14,314.50 in respect of compensation from the date of her dismissal to the date of her obtaining alternative employment, Judge Callan Date: 8 August 2025[2]JUDGMENT SENT TO THE PARTIES ON Date: 16 September 2025 ...................................................................................... Notes Reasons for the judgment having been given orally at the hearing, written reasons will not be provided unless a request was made by either party at the hearing or a written request is presented by either party within 14 days of the sending of this written record of the decision.