Mr Abubakar Boyi v Convedo Digital Experts Ltd — 2024

The claim was heard remotely at East London on 12 January 2024 before Employment Judge H Travers. The claimant attended in person and was unrepresented; the respondent did not attend and was not represented. No written reasons were provided because reasons were given orally at the hearing.

The tribunal dismissed the claimant's claim for a redundancy payment. It also recorded that the holiday pay claim was dismissed upon withdrawal. No other substantive findings are recorded in the written judgment for those claims.

The tribunal declared that the respondent had made unauthorised deductions from the claimant's wages and ordered payment of £14,853, calculated gross of tax and national insurance. The judgment sets out the calculation as unpaid wages for May and June 2023 and the first week of July 2023, namely (2 x £2,916) plus £673, giving £6,505, less £400 paid, leaving £6,105.

The tribunal added three months' unpaid wages from the commencement of the notice period on 6 July 2023 until 5 October 2023, calculated as (3 x £2,916) = £8,748. The total unauthorised deduction from wages was therefore £14,853, and that sum was ordered to be paid to the claimant.