Judge goes through the issues and chronology
Age discrimination
Selected for redundancy unfairly over a similar younger colleague
20 mins cross examination max
Claimant called first – swears in on a bible similar to criminal trials
Witness statement – 3 pages long
Part of the sales team in a publishing firm
“IT is not my strong point”
Had to ask colleagues for help occasionally
Claimant’s lawyer focuses on IT skills – suggests he should have attended training outside of work hours – doesn’t have a smartphone so suggests he is not checking his emails as often as other colleagues
Picture not included on new company website but he didn’t notice for three months. “I was too busy bringing in sales” “I’m not stupid – I just haven’t had the training.”
Not on Twitter or Facebook – I know many editors in the same position – “many firms use these as marketing tools”. “Marketing is part of my job but we have a separate ‘marketing’ department. I have other skills with which I’m better than my colleagues.”
Abbott Publishing – rebranded as ‘young’ or ‘modern’
Arguing about the company’s customer target audience – in their 30s or more of a spread? Luxury cars are not necessarily a purchase for the young and tech savvy only.
Do you accept that you were against the changes made in the rebranding.
“Are you against change?” “Some of them”. Wasn’t trained to use the online subscription service. Training is the responsibility of management. He would pass on queries to colleagues.
Didn’t challenge the redundancy procedure ‘as the lead sales person I didn’t think I’d be considered.’
If the needs of the firm and it’s customers are changing, past sales figures aren’t relevant – it’s about potential future performance.
Judge says par 5 of witness statement – he says he asked for more IT training but was told by his line manager not to worry about it
Witness Lola Bell
Par 2 he said that it would only wind Patrick up if he knew that the photos had gone ahead without him – he was on holiday when the photo session was arranged
She informed him about the website – he hadn’t seen it at all
Respondent Frederick Abbott
Company 44 employees – grown a lot in the past few years
Mainly down to the sales team
1.8-4.5 million
Accepts he was one of the top sales managers in the past 12 months
Regularly hit or exceeded his targets
Rebranding – external website + online subscriptions service
Website took 6-12 months to build – his photo was on the old website – out in the field on the day the photos were taken but was back in the office in the afternoon!!!
Rest of the sales team 23-31 substantially younger
Could have taken a photo yourself – or add a profile without a pic
Redundancy selection criteria
Sales executive – main function is SALES but also needs
IT skills category – he went to 3 out of the 4 training sessions and asked for extra training
“He didn’t seem very open to the training”
Scored 2 in IT but top scorer in sales
Flexibility and adaptability to change – why did they need this category?
Innovation – as above
3 categories that all say the same thing
Communication internally and externally
“Didn’t fit your new dynamic image did he?”
Scoring process of a redundancy process
Why didn’t you offer voluntary redundancy?
Daniel Abbott (starring role of Robert Bond)
Chairman father why not involved in the tribunal? His reaction – you two are in charge
Length of service and disciplinary scores should have been changed
“No one scored a 5 in disciplinary”
“We are looking at multi channel avenues to drive the business toward”
If the company is growing why the redundancy process anyway? Because with new technology we don’t need as many people to make sales online subscription
Unfair dismissal easy decision
Age discrimination thrown out
Reasons
Clear that the respondent had already decided that the claimant would not be with the business going forward
Respondent came extremely close to age discrimination judgement by a whisker – believe it was the claimants attitude rather than his age – resistant to change, anti IT etc
We think the way in which the respondent has handled this case does not reflect well on their organisation
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