Labour Court rejects John Arkins’s unfair dismissal appeal

The Labour Court rejected John Arkins’s appeal over his unfair dismissal complaint against Element Pictures Limited and affirmed the adjudication officer’s decision. The Court’s determination was dated 1 May 2024. Arkins said he had worked on productions for years and was dismissed when he was not offered a job in April 2019. Element Pictures denied employing or paying him, saying separate companies were set up for individual productions. The Court found that the production companies were separate legal entities and that Arkins had not established that Element Pictures Limited employed him. It found his complaint not well founded, so the original rejection was upheld.