More than 140 former Carillion staff have had their plea for compensation rejected at an Employment Appeal Tribunal.<\/p>\n
The workers all lost their jobs when the \u00a35.3bn-turnover contractor plunged into compulsory liquidation in January<\/a> 2018, shocking the construction industry and tearing chunks of financial buffer out of the sector.<\/p>\n Represented by Unite, in November 2020 the 143 workers argued that they were not properly consulted on the redundancy process. But they were not granted compensation on the basis that they were informed in time about the decision to move towards redundancy and they had accepted that in official correspondence with Carillion\u2019s administrators.<\/p>\n However, in the latter half of 2022, the 143 former staff members appealed the decision, saying that Carillion retained them as workers right until the company failed, without telling them of the decision to go into liquidation.<\/p>\n They argued they were put into a different category of worker by the company without them knowing or accepting it, which ruled out their entitlement to compensation.<\/p>\n But the appeal judge ruled that the case represented a \u201csecond bite at the cherry\u201d, adding that decisions would only be changed if \u201cthe tribunal has missed something important\u201d or if new evidence has been put forward. It ruled that the circumstances had not been altered, and so it would not reconsider the application.<\/p>\n \u201cA tribunal will not reconsider a finding of fact just because the claimant wishes it had gone in his favour,\u201d the latest ruling said.<\/p>\n Construction News\u00a0<\/em>approached Unite for comment.<\/p>\n The ruling is separate to a 2021 case, which found<\/a> that the contractor had not consulted with a group of employees enough before it went bust.<\/p>\n