Mrs LA Ord & Mr N Gascoigne v Heidi Rowlands — 2023

Mrs LA Ord and Mr N Gascoigne attended unrepresented, and the respondent did not attend. Judge Cowx, sitting alone, recorded that Mrs Ord’s claims for unpaid wages, holiday pay, notice pay and redundancy payment were well founded and succeeded, and that Mr Gascoigne’s claims for unpaid wages, holiday pay and notice pay were well founded and succeeded.

For Mrs Ord, the tribunal ordered £344.46 for unpaid wages, £822.80 for holiday pay and £4,487.76 for notice pay. The judgment states that those figures were calculated using gross monthly pay and that the respondent was to deduct the sums payable to HM Revenue and Customs for income tax and national insurance. The tribunal recorded the total gross sum payable to Mrs Ord for those heads as £5,655.02.

The tribunal also ordered Mrs Ord £8,227.56 net as a redundancy payment. For Mr Gascoigne, the tribunal ordered £403.92 for unpaid wages, £837.24 for holiday pay and £348.84 for notice pay, with deductions for national insurance. The tribunal recorded the total gross sum payable to Mr Gascoigne for those heads as £1,590.00.

In addition, the tribunal found that the respondent was in breach of section 38 of the Employment Act 2002 because it had not provided Mr Gascoigne with full and accurate written particulars of employment. It ordered an additional £1,252.00, equal to four weeks’ net pay. The awards recorded in the decision total £16,724.58.