Mr S Rayner v Compass Group UK & Ireland Ltd: 8002561/2025
JUDGMENT
The claim is dismissed under rule 47 of the Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules 2024.REASONS
[1]This hearing was to have been a 2-hour preliminary hearing for case management. The claimant failed to attend. There was no explanation for that. The clerk telephoned the claimant on the number given in his claim form and left voicemail messages. She also emailed the claimant. There was no reply. I waited until 15 minutes after the scheduled start time before making a decision.[2]There was nothing on the Tribunal’s file to indicate why the claimant had not Case Number: 8002561/2025 Page 2 attended. Certainly, he had not notified the Tribunal of any problem or applied for a postponement.[3]The claimant had not completed his case management agenda, which was required 21 days before the hearing. That made it impossible for me to make any progress in his absence, since the most pressing need was for further detail of the claim, the types of disability discrimination alleged and the essential building blocks of those complaints. So far as the complaint of unfair dismissal is concerned, the claimant appears to lack sufficient continuous service to bring the claim.[4]In those circumstances, given the claimant’s unexplained failure to attend, I decided to dismiss the claim under rule 47.