Ms G Otunba-Payne v Innovate Agriculture Technologies Ltd and Innovate Technologies Ltd: 2409670/2023 and 6007170/2024
JUDGMENT
[1]At the material time, the claimant was an employee of the first respondent and was engaged as a worker of the first respondent.[2]The complaint of unauthorised deduction from wages against the first respondent is well-founded. The first respondent made unauthorised deductions from the claimant’s wages in the period from 1 March 2023 to 1 April 2024[3]The first respondent shall pay the claimant £89.607.40, which is the gross sum deducted.[4]The complaint in respect of holiday pay against the first respondent is wellfounded. The first respondent failed to pay the claimant for ten days accrued but untaken annual leave as required by the Working Time Regulations 1998.[5]The first respondent shall pay the claimant £2,942.39 in respect of accrued but untaken annual leave.[6]The claim for holiday pay relating to previous holiday years (prior to 2024, save for three days carried over) was not well-founded and is dismissed.[7]The claimant was neither employed under a contract of employment nor engaged as a worker at the time material to the claims by the second respondent. All claims against the second respondent are not well-founded and are dismissed.