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URL: http://www.bailii.org/nie/cases/NIIT/2017/01365_16IT.html
Cite as: [2017] NIIT 1365_16IT, [2017] NIIT 01365_16IT
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THE INDUSTRIAL TRIBUNALS
CASE REF: 1365/16
CLAIMANT: John Brannigan
RESPONDENTS: 1. Department for the Economy
2. Lisburn Glass Manufacturing Ltd
3. Grant Thornton (NI) LLP
4. Lisburn Glass Group Ltd (In Administration)
DECISION
(A) The claimant's appeal in respect of holiday pay under Article 233 of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 ("ERO") is well-founded and the respondent Department ("the Department") ought to make a payment of £240 to the claimant in respect of holiday pay.
(B) All/any claims made by the claimant against Lisburn Glass Manufacturing Ltd is/are not well-founded and therefore is/are dismissed.
(C) All/any claims made by the claimant against Grant Thornton (NI) LLP is/are not well-founded and therefore is/are dismissed.
(D) All/any claims made by the claimant against Lisburn Glass Group Ltd (In Administration) is/are not well-founded and therefore is/are dismissed.
Constitution of Tribunal:
Employment Judge (sitting alone): Employment Judge Buggy
Appearances:
The claimant was not present or represented.
None of the respondents was present or represented.
REASONS
1. I announced my decision at the end of the hearing. At the same time, I gave brief oral reasons for that Decision.
2. At my suggestion, none of the respondents was represented at this hearing.
3. An application for holiday pay was the only relevant application which the claimant had made to the Department. As a result of enquiries which the Department has made, and as a result of developments generally in the litigation of which these particular proceedings are a constituent part, the Department confirmed that it now accepted that £240 was due from the Department to the claimant in respect of holiday pay.
4. The Department also confirmed that it accepted that none of the other respondents to these proceedings had any liability to pay any amount to the Department in respect of the relevant holiday pay claim.
Employment Judge:
Date and place of hearing: 27 March 2017, Belfast.
Date decision recorded in register and issued to parties: