1. Mr J Laranjinha 2. Mr A Bernadino v Nazrul Islam Khan — 2022

The tribunal found that Mr J Laranjinha and Mr A Bernadino were employed by Mr Nazrul Islam Khan as chefs under oral contracts, and that both were summarily dismissed without notice on 24 March 2019 for reasons unrelated to conduct. It rejected the corporate paperwork naming Amaya Lancaster Ltd/Wokiin Lancaster Ltd as employer, finding that the later payslips and P45s were created without the claimants' knowledge and contained false entries, and that Mr Khan held himself out as the employer.

On the wages claims, the tribunal accepted the claimants' evidence that they worked 78 hours a week and, for the second claimant, 72 hours a week until 10 December 2018 and 85 hours a week thereafter. It found they were paid below the National Minimum Wage throughout, treated the shortfall as a series of unauthorised deductions from wages, and awarded £10,978.21 to the first claimant and £27,161.96 to the second claimant, both inclusive of the section 17 uplift.

The tribunal also upheld the section 10/11 NMWA complaint about failure to produce records, the failure to provide written particulars of employment, holiday pay, and wrongful dismissal/notice pay. It awarded £697.60 each for the production-notice breach, four weeks' gross pay of £2,284 each for the particulars claim, £916.11 and £1,628.32 for untaken holiday, and £610.74 and £697.85 for notice pay, recording total gross sums payable of £15,486.56 and £32,469.73. The judgment's recorded total for the first claimant is 10p lower than the arithmetic of the itemised awards, so the stated total has been used here.