Mr A Ikeji v Office of Rail and Road and others

Case Numbers: 3204202/2022 and 3201367/2022

EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS Claimant: Mr A Ikeji Respondent: (1) Office of Rail and Road (2) Ian Prosser (3) Matthew Farrell (4) Victoria Rosolia (5) Donald Wilson Heard at: East London Hearing Centre On: 24 October 2022 Before: Employment Judge Russell Representation Claimant: Mr P O’Callaghan (Counsel) Respondent: Mr G Menzies (Counsel)

JUDGMENT (1) The Claimant’s application for interim relief fails and is dismissed. (2) The Respondents’ application to strike out the claims fails and is dismissed.

REASONS 1 By a claim form presented on 15 July 2022, the Claimant brings a complaint of unfair dismissal because of a protected disclosure and made an application for interim relief. The effective date of termination was 12 July 2022 and so the application was presented in time. 2 The Claimant was employed by the Respondent from 5 January 2022 as a Trainee Inspector. From early in the employmen...

to consider redeployment. In an email sent the same day, the Claimant concluded: ‘ if I have to be granted unpaid leave until the situation is resolved, I would consider that seriously to protect my health and well-being. I am also willing to consider a business move to any of the other directorate in ORR that seems possibl’. Mr Farrell replied the following day confirming that the Claimant cou...