In person For the First v Respondent — 2020

The claimant worked as Operations Manager at The Chequered Skipper public house from 1 March 2019 to 13 June 2019. He said he was initially paid by Elm Heritage of Oundle Limited and later received a payslip from Elm Heritage Enterprise Limited. In the absence of any attendance or explanation from the respondents, the tribunal accepted his evidence and joined Elm Heritage Enterprise Limited as the second respondent, then entered judgment jointly and severally against both respondents.

On the wages issue, the tribunal accepted the claimant's calculation that he had been underpaid in March and April 2019 and had also not been paid for work done in June. The award for unlawful deduction from wages was £1,147.39, which the tribunal identified by reference to the sums the claimant said were outstanding. The tribunal said it was happy to accept his version of events and the sums he said were outstanding.

The tribunal also found that holiday pay had not been paid. It awarded £460.30 in respect of holiday pay for leave taken in June 2019. In addition, it found that the claimant had worked on 1 and 2 June 2019, then took holiday until 12 June, and was not paid for that period as claimed.

For notice, the tribunal found that the claimant had never been given a contract of employment. Although he said he gave one month's notice on 13 June 2019, the respondents dismissed him immediately. The tribunal held that this was a breach of contract, but it limited recovery to the statutory notice period of one week rather than the one month the claimant sought. It awarded £577 as one week's gross pay, bringing the total award to £2,184.69.