(1) Mr Osazee Obazee (2) Mrs Ebere Onwuamaoke (3) Mrs Cynthia Osarenkhoe (4) Mrs Maureen Olowu (5) Mrs Temitope Aminat Adesanya (6) Mr Chiemeka Obi v LJ Health and Wellbeing Ltd and 1 other — 2024

The claims arose from a period in late 2023 and early 2024 when care workers worked for the first respondent, LJ Health and Wellbeing Ltd, but were either not paid at all or paid only a small amount of wages. Neither respondent submitted a valid response on time, and neither attended the hearing on 17 October 2024. The second respondent, Jacksonwell Recruitment Limited, was dismissed from the proceedings because it was incorporated on 1 February 2024, after Mr Obazee had stopped working for the first respondent.

In relation to case 2401126/2024, the Tribunal found that Mr Obazee had provided signed timesheets evidencing 65.5 hours worked between 25 December 2023 and 26 January 2024. As he did not provide his hourly rate, the Tribunal applied the National Minimum Wage rate of £10.42 per hour. After deducting £281.60 already paid, the unpaid wages were £400.91, with statutory holiday pay of £69.62 added, making a total of £470.53 payable immediately by the first respondent.

The claimant also brought a claim of direct race discrimination, alleging that Black Nigerian workers were not paid when others were. As the claimant did not attend the hearing or provide further evidence of the discrimination claim by the date specified at the case management hearing, that claim was dismissed.