{"id":184120,"date":"2025-10-02T03:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/184120\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:40:09","slug":"i-won-65000-at-an-employment-tribunal-but-i-havent-seen-a-penny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/184120\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I won \u00a365,000 at an employment tribunal \u2013 but I haven&#8217;t seen a penny&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nadine told the BBC that taking the company she worked for, Peckham Levels Ltd, to a tribunal was &#8220;probably the worst experience of my life&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both sides told the BBC they made offers to settle, but the case went to a full hearing and Nadine was awarded \u00a328,750 for detrimental treatment, \u00a335,250 for unfair dismissal plus a compensatory award of \u00a3915.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Weeks after the judgement, Peckham Levels Ltd went into administration, leaving Nadine with no way to recover her award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve lost my sense of joy,&#8221; she says. &#8220;When you get told by a judge that you have suffered detriment, and you still can&#8217;t receive that money \u2013 it kind of makes it worse,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former director of Peckham Levels, Preston Benson, is currently the director of 12 businesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, he said the distress the case had caused Nadine was &#8220;deeply regrettable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Benson pointed out that he had &#8220;no legal ability&#8221; to pay the award once the company was in administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nadine told the BBC that taking the company she worked for, Peckham Levels Ltd, to a tribunal was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[64,63,99,180],"class_list":["post-184120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}