Mr S Roberts v Ge-Aet — 2024

The claim was issued in the London South Employment Tribunals on 24 January 2023. The respondent did not present a valid response on time, and the Employment Judge determined the matter under rule 21 of the Employment Tribunals Rules of Procedure 2013.

The tribunal found that the respondent had made unauthorised deductions from the claimant’s wages for July 2022 to October 2022, a period of four months. It awarded the claimant £3,000 gross for that claim.

The tribunal also found that the claimant had been dismissed in breach of contract in respect of his entitlement to statutory notice, and awarded £2,350 gross as damages. The judgment states that this figure was based on 4.33 weeks’ notice after 7 years’ service, using a weekly gross wage of £542.31. The tribunal further found that the claimant was dismissed by reason of redundancy and was entitled to a statutory redundancy payment of £5,694.26 gross, calculated by reference to the same weekly wage, the claimant’s age of 51, and 7 years’ service.

In addition, the tribunal found that the respondent had failed to pay the claimant’s holiday entitlement. It recorded that the claimant was entitled to 20 leave days per year, had used 4 days of the relevant year’s entitlement, and was therefore owed 16 days at £77.26 per day. The award on that claim was £1,236.16 gross. The judgment states that the total payable was £12,280.42, and that any tax or national insurance liability to HMRC was for the claimant.