Miss R Preece v Barchester Healthcare Ltd

Case No: 6001835/2024

EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS Claimant Respondent v Miss R Preece Barchester Healthcare Limited Heard: In Hull On: 10 March 2025 Before: Employment Judge JM Wade Appearance: For the Claimant: No attendance For the Respondents: Mr Singh

JUDGMENT The claimant’s complaints of breach of regulation 5(A)(1)(a) of the Working Time Regulations and detriment pursuant to Section 45A(f) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 are dismissed pursuant to Rule 47 upon the claimant’s failure to attend or be represented at today’s 10am hearing.

REASONS 1 The claimant worked from 2022 to 2023 at the respondent’s Lindum House. She was 17 when she commenced her role as a kitchen assistant. It is accepted that on occasions from autumn 2022 until May 2023 the claimant undertook some shifts in excess of eight hours. She raised the issue of limits on working hours for under eighteens and her duties were adjusted. 2 About five months after he...