Mr G Westwell v Kent Coach Travel Limited AT: LONDON SOUTH (By telephone) — 2020

The tribunal sat under Rule 21 after no response was received from the respondent and no one appeared for the respondent at the telephone hearing. Employment Judge Siddall heard evidence from Mr G Westwell, who worked as a driver from July 2019 until 28 October 2019. The tribunal amended the respondent's name to Kent Coach Travel Limited, reflecting the employer name on the claimant's payslips and the claimant's evidence that Travelmasters was likely a trading name.

The claim was for unpaid wages for the week 21 to 27 October 2019. The tribunal accepted the claimant's calculation that he had worked 25 hours on school journeys at £10 per hour, 24 hours of railway work at £10 per hour, and 15 hours on Sunday 27 October at the weekend rate of £10.50 per hour. It accepted the total lost wages figure of £647.50 gross and found that the respondent had made unlawful deductions from wages contrary to section 13 of the Employment Rights Act 1996.