Ms T Dodson v LJ Health and Wellbeing Ltd and Jacksonwell Recruitment Ltd: 2401353/2024
JUDGMENT
The claimant is successful in her claim for unpaid wages against the first respondent. The second respondent is dismissed from these proceedings. The first respondent, LJ Health and Wellbeing Ltd, is ordered to pay to the claimant £345 in unpaid wages.REASONS
[1]Ms Dodson’s claim is one of fourteen claims against the respondents, arising out of a period in the second half of 2023 and early 2024 when a number of care workers worked for the respondents but were either not paid at all, or paid only a small amount of wages. They have attempted to obtain payment from the company and directly from the director, Mr Liam Jackson, but have been unsuccessful. Both the first and the second respondent remain active companies according to the Companies House register.[2]The fourteen claims are being heard together in the Tribunal. This judgment relates solely to Ms Dodson. One of the other claimants thought that there might have been a transfer of his employment from the first respondent to the second respondent, Jacksonwell Recruitment Limited, in February 2024. However, Ms Dodson stopped working for LJ Health and Wellbeing Ltd before Jacksonwell Recruitment was incorporated as a company at the start of February 2024, and so can have no claim against Jacksonwell Recruitment Limited, the second respondent. It is therefore dismissed from her claim.[3]Neither respondent submitted a valid response to the claims on time. The claims are therefore not defended.[4]Ms Dodson did not attend this hearing but her claim form says that she worked for the respondent from 7 December to 10 December 2023 and was not paid. She claims £345 in unpaid wages. This claim is not defended and so the first respondent is to pay Ms Dodson the £345 claimed straight away.[5]It is hoped that the first respondent complies with its legal obligation to pay the amount ordered in this judgment. However, given the lack of engagement by the respondents in these proceedings, it may be that Ms Dodson needs to take steps to enforce the judgment against the first respondent. Information about how to do this in the letter accompanying this judgment, and she is reminded of the availability of free advice from the Citizens Advice Bureau to assist her in any steps she may choose to take.