Employment Tribunals

Case Number: 6036174/2025 - 1 - EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS Claimant Respondent Mr A Usher v Format Creative Studio Limited Heard at: Manchester On: 28 April 2026 Before: Employment Judge Kenward (sitting alone) Appearances For the Claimant: in person For the Respondent: Mr B Garner (Director) JUDGMENT 1. The Claimant is entitled to a redundancy payment, and the Respondent is ordered to pay to the Claimant the sum of £882.19 as a redundancy payment. 2. The complaint of breach of contract in relation to notice pay is not well-founded and is dismissed. Approved by Employment Judge Kenward Dated 28 April 2026 Sent to the parties on 29 May 2026 For the Tribunal Office Case Number: 6036174/2025 - 2 - Notes Summary reasons for the Judgment having been given orally at the hearing, summary written reasons will not be provided unless a request was made by either party at the hearing or a written request is presented by either party within 14 days of the sending of this written record of the decision. Judgments and reasons for the Judgments are published, in full, online at www.gov.uk/employment-Tribunal-decisions shortly after a copy has been sent to the Claimant(s) and Respondent(s) in a case. Please note that if a Tribunal hearing has been recorded you may request a transcript of the recording, for which a charge may be payable. If a transcript is produced it will not include any oral Judgment or reasons given at the hearing. The transcript will not be checked, approved or verified by a Judge. There is more information in the joint Presidential Practice Direction on the Recording and Transcription of Hearings, and accompanying Guidance, which can be found here: https://www.judiciary.uk/guidance-and-resources/employment-rules-and-legislation-practice-directions/ Case Number: 6036174/2025 - 3 - NOTICE THE EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (INTEREST) ORDER 1990 ARTICLE 12 Case number: 6036174/2025 Name of case: Mr A Usher v Format Creative Studio Limited Interest is payable when an Employment Tribunal makes an award or determination requiring one party to proceedings to pay a sum of money to another party, apart from sums representing costs or expenses. No interest is payable if the sum is paid in full within 14 days after the date the Tribunal sent the written record of the decision to the parties. The date the Tribunal sent the written record of the decision to the parties is called the relevant decision day. Interest starts to accrue from the day immediately after the relevant decision day. That is called the calculation day. The rate of interest payable is the rate specified in section 17 of the Judgments Act 1838 on the relevant decision day. This is known as the stipulated rate of interest. The Secretary of the Tribunal is required to give you notice of the relevant decision day, the calculation day, and the stipulated rate of interest in your case. They are as follows: the relevant decision day in this case is: 29 May 2026 the calculation day in this case is: 30 May 2026 the stipulated rate of interest is: 8% per annum. For the Employment Tribunal Office