Mr G Wogan v The Maintenance Services Team Ltd: 3309587/2022 and 3309590/2022
JUDGMENT
[1]The respondent company is still trading according to Companies House records, however, no one from the respondent attended to put forward its case. Applying rule 47 Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations, the Tribunal contacted the respondent and spoke to someone by the name of Martin, who said that as the business is now engaged in plumbing and it is no longer trading at its previous premises, hence no one will be attending. I decided to proceed with the hearing in its absence.[2]It is declared that the respondent has made unauthorised deductions from the claimant’s wages, in that, it failed to pay the claimant his final salary due in April 2022, and had deducted without explanation from his itemised final payment slip, the sum of £145 in respect of a “lock job”. Accordingly, the respondent is ordered to pay the claimant the sum of £2,770.03.[3]In pursuing his claim for payment, the claimant visited the respondent’s premises on three occasions, having to take 3 days off work, to collect his pay slips but on each occasion they were not given to him. His three days’ loss of earnings is £480, and his travel expenses is £148. The respondent, in addition, is ordered to pay the Case Number: 3309587/2022 3309590/2022 claimant the sum of £628 having regard to section 24(2) Employment Rights Act 1996.[4]For the avoidance of any doubt, the respondent is ordered to pay the claimant the total sum of £3,398.03.