Former beauty firm boss pockets more than £50k after tribunal rules she was unfairly sacked for taking working holidays

A glamorous Scottish entrepreneur has won over £50,000 in compensation after she was unfairly sacked for taking holidays to Bali and Australia while in charge of the company. Hayley Harvey-Smith founded and was in charge of beauty business GlamCandy before she was unfairly dismissed for taking too many holidays Hayley Harvey-Smith has won more than £50,000 in compensation for unfair dismissal case after a tribunal ruled she had worked during most of her trips abroad GlamCandy was described as a school which offers accredited courses across the UK in makeup artistry. The redundancy and notice payments referred to in the letter were not paid to Mrs Harvey-Smith and her sacking was made ‘without any input or consultation’ from the entrepreneur. Upholding her claims, employment Judge Eleanor Mannion said Mrs Harvey-Smith lost her job in a ‘sham redundancy’ ‘There was no genuine redundancy situation, a redundancy consultation or process had not been followed and had not been fairly selected for redundancy,’ the judge said. ‘In the absence of a fair reason for dismissal, I find that dismissal on 4 December 2023 was unfair in law.’ Mrs Harvey-Smith is now involved with other businesses.