Ms Rhona Clegg v Ryan Davies — 2022

Under Rule 21 of the Employment Tribunals Rules of Procedure 2013, the tribunal proceeded because the respondent did not present a valid response in time. Employment Judge Holmes entered judgment for Ms Rhona Clegg against Ryan Davies on the papers, without a contested hearing.

The tribunal held that the respondent had made unauthorised deductions from Ms Clegg's wages and ordered payment of £1,136.70 gross, subject to the usual deductions for tax and national insurance. It also upheld her holiday pay complaint under regulation 14(2) or regulation 16(1) of the Working Time Regulations 1998, relating to 2.33 hours of untaken but accrued holiday, and ordered £160.00 gross, again subject to tax and national insurance deductions.

The judgment noted that the respondent had failed to provide itemised payslips, but made no further financial award on that issue because the unnotified deductions had already been awarded as unlawful deductions. The tribunal further found that the respondent had breached section 1 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 by failing to provide written particulars of employment and made an additional award under section 38 of the Employment Act 2002 of two weeks' pay, £320.00, not subject to deductions.

The total financial award recorded by the judgment is £1,616.70. The accompanying notice explained the tribunal's general interest arrangements, but the judgment itself did not make a separate quantified interest award.