In person For the v Hollymount Residential and Dementia Care Centre and Longfield Care Homes Ltd — 2023

The claim was heard at Manchester by CVP on 27 September 2023 before Employment Judge A M Buchanan sitting alone. The claimant appeared in person and there was no attendance for the respondents. Reasons were given orally at the hearing, so no written reasons were provided in the judgment record.

The tribunal found that the complaint of unauthorised deduction from wages against the second respondent was well-founded. It ordered the second respondent, Longfield Care Homes Limited, to pay the claimant £158.67 forthwith.

The award was made up of £39.67 for an underpayment of wages, calculated as £79 less £39.33 already paid by the respondent since the proceedings were instituted, and £119 for unauthorised deductions from the claimant's final pay. The judgment states that the £39.67 element is a gross payment and that the claimant must account to the appropriate authorities for any income tax and employee national insurance contributions due on that sum.

The complaint of unauthorised deduction from wages against the first respondent, Hollymount Residential and Dementia Care Centre, was dismissed because the claimant withdrew it. The written record also includes a notice on interest under the Employment Tribunals (Interest) Order 1990, stating that the relevant decision day was 29 September 2023 and the stipulated rate of interest was 8% per annum if the award remained unpaid after the applicable period.