Mrs L. V. Jones (C1) Mrs A. D. Owen (C2) v Kingdom Services Group Limited — 2021

The tribunal found that each claimant had originally worked 10 hours per week at Coleg Menai, but that in December 2018 the respondent's line manager offered and the claimants accepted an increase to 21.5 contracted hours per week from January 2019, or alternatively a second afternoon cleaning role of 11.5 hours per week. The tribunal accepted the claimants' evidence that the additional hours were agreed as contracted hours, not overtime.

The tribunal found that the respondent paid salary, holiday entitlement and furlough pay on the basis of 21.5 hours per week until September 2020. It also distinguished the claimants' October 2019 overtime, which was separately recorded and paid as overtime, from the regular afternoon hours.

The tribunal found that from September 2020 the respondent unilaterally reduced pay to 10 hours per week by misdescribing the afternoon hours as overtime. The deductions were not authorised by statute, by a written contractual term, or by written agreement, and each claimant was owed £6,728.42 gross for the disputed 11.5 hours per week over the claim period.