Personal Injury

A settlement was awarded by the Employment Tribunal to the ex-employees that brough the claim and they are pleased with the result. Employees are entitled to pursue a claim for a protective award if 20 or more employees are made redundant from one establishment and their employer does not follow a statutory consultation process before making them redundant. The claim was initially defended by the administrators on the basis that not all of Aspire-Igens’ offices employed 20 or more employees, even if the total number of employees employed by Aspire-Igen across all locations substantially exceeded 20.

” “We fought hard to establish this with witness statements backing up the evidence and I’m pleased to say we were successful in every one of the 38 cases we dealt with and our clients received £1,000s in protective awards, money they did not anticipate but which has undoubtedly helped them after what was a stressful period. A protective award claim is compensation of up to 90 days’ gross pay, which can be awarded by an Employment Tribunal when an employer fails to follow the correct collective redundancy process of twenty or more employees from the same establishment.

There is no minimum length of service to qualify for such an award and quite often employees obtain more compensation by way of a protective award than, for example, statutory redundancy or notice pay, which are completely separate claims.