A former negotiator who worked for Home Estate Agents in Manchester has been awarded more than £14,000 after winning her Employment Tribunal hearing for unfair dismissal.

Sue Summersgill (main picture) claimed she was owed for holiday pay, pension contributions, car lease costs and loss of wages.

And employment tribunal Judge Jane Callan agreed, awarding Summersgill a total of £14,314.50.

Summersgill was dismissed from her job in September last year, but found another role in March this year.

Home Estate Agents (Urmston) was ordered to pay her £12,150 gross salary, plus 3% employer’s pension contributions of £364.50, four months for the car lease, and £1,800 for loss of benefit for the car.

The Neg tried unsuccessfully to reach the Urmston branch of Home Estate Agents for comment, but it has closed, and the estate agency continues at another location under new management. The director of the firm behind the branch involved in the unfair dismissal case, Stephen Groves, featured in an ITV report on agents coping with Covid restrictions during the pandemic.

Constructive dismissal

In another recent case, an estate agent was awarded £21,411 after successfully arguing that being moved to a different desk position amounted to constructive dismissal.

Nicholas Walker, 53-year-old former branch manager at Hertfordshire agency Robsons, won his employment tribunal case.

The case, first reported by The Neg in March when the tribunal ruled in Walker’s favour, concluded with the granting of a substantial five-figure compensation award.

Disability discrimination

And a senior estate agent who suffered from migraines was given the go-ahead by an employment tribunal to claim disability discrimination.

Sarah Williams, who worked as a team manager with a Countrywide estate agency, says her severe headaches prevented her from carrying out her job.

The estate agent is claiming disability discrimination, unfair dismissal and unlawful deduction from wages.

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