Mr S Shri-Giritharan v Menzies Aviation (UK) Limited — 2018

The claimant alleged unauthorised deductions relating first to holiday pay for 30 and 31 March 2018. The tribunal found from the June payslip that he had been paid £131.49 for 13.5 hours at £9.74 per hour, recorded as overtime because that was the respondent's generic term for additional payments. The claimant accepted that this holiday pay had been received.

The claimant also referred to a later alleged holiday pay shortfall of about £5 in August, but the tribunal noted that this post-dated the claim form dated 20 July and was not part of the claim. The tribunal further considered alleged unpaid overtime for 20 March and 15 April 2018, and found from the documentation and the claimant's acceptance that no deductions had been made.

The tribunal concluded that there were no deductions at all and dismissed the claim as having no basis whatsoever. It also recorded that the respondent had sent a detailed letter of explanation dated 11 July before the claim was issued, addressing the matters later accepted at the hearing.