Ms K Viruthasalam v Dr. Rimi Mukherjee And Dr. Mousumi Mukherjee Trading As Oxgate Gardens Surgery — 2025

Employment Judge Quill, sitting alone at Watford on 12 December 2024, found that the Respondent had failed to make the correct payment in lieu of unused holiday entitlement on termination, that a deduction of £349.58 from the Claimant's wages on 28 January 2024 described as 'Nov AL deduction' was unauthorised, and that there had been a national minimum wage underpayment of £30.18 which the Respondent accepted. No further payment was ordered in respect of those three matters because the Respondent had paid £379.76 in late September 2024, which the Claimant accepts fully resolved them.

The Tribunal also found a further unauthorised deduction of £354.95 covering five specified days at £70.99 per day, and ordered the Respondent to pay that gross sum. In addition, the Tribunal made an award of two weeks' pay under section 38 of the Employment Act 2002, amounting to £709.90.

The complaint that sums shown on payslips as 'Ee Pension' were unauthorised deductions from wages was dismissed: the Claimant had authorised the employer to make deductions for the Employee NHS Pension Contribution and failed to prove the Respondent had acted outside that authorisation. Claims about the Employer Pension Contribution to the NHS Pension fund were held to be outside the Tribunal's jurisdiction and outside the definition of 'wages' in section 27 of the Employment Rights Act 1996.