Marks and Spencer plc

Case Numbers: 2202003/2024 1 Reserved Judgment EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS BETWEEN Claimant and Respondent Miss C Royer Marks & Spencer Plc JUDGMENT OF THE EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL SITTING AT: London Central ON: 2-9 September 2025; 29 September 2025 (in chambers) BEFORE: Employment Judge A M Snelson MEMBERS: Mr S Pearlman Mr K Ghotbi-Ravandi On hearing the Claimant in person and Dr C Hill, counsel, on behalf of the Respondent, the Tribunal determines that: (1) The Claimant’s complaints of direct race discrimination are not well-founded. (2) The Claimant’s complaint of unfair dismissal is not well-founded. (3) The Claimant’s claim for unpaid wages (put as a complaint of unauthorised deductions from wages, alternatively breach of contract) is not well-founded. (4) The complaints of direct race discrimination other than those numbered 3.2.16, 3.2.17, 3.2.18, 3.2.19, 3.2.20, 3.2.21 and 3.2.22 in the list of issues appended to the accompanying reasons fail on the further ground that they were presented out of time and the Tribunal has no jurisdiction to consider them. (5) Accordingly, the proceedings as a whole are dismissed. REASONS Introduction 1 The Respondent is a large retail organisation which employs over 63,000 people in Great Britain. 2 The Claimant, who describes herself as black, was continuously employed by the Respondent as a Personal Assistant (‘PA’), for over nine years. The employment ended with dismissal on 28 October 2023, on the stated ground of redundancy. Case Numbers: 2202003/2024 2 3 By her claim form presented on 21 February 2024, which followed a period of Early Conciliation between 10 December 2023 and 21 January 2024, the Claimant brings numerous complai...