EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case Number: 4103496/2023 Miss L Ridley v Hendrie Legal Limited — 2023

This was a Rule 21 judgment issued because no response had been presented to the claim. The Employment Judge decided the case on the available material and cancelled the hearing listed for 7 September 2023.

The tribunal upheld six heads of claim. It found that the respondent had made an unauthorised deduction from wages for March 2023 and ordered payment of £2,184.00. It also found that the claimant had been dismissed in breach of contract in respect of notice and awarded £2,016.00 in damages, described as one month’s pay.

The tribunal further found that the claimant had been dismissed by reason of redundancy and was entitled to a redundancy payment of £1,512.00. It also upheld the claim for unpaid holiday entitlement and ordered £688.80, calculated as 4.1 days at £168.00 per day.

Two further claims were upheld concerning pension contributions. The tribunal found an unauthorised deduction from wages where employee pension contributions had been deducted but not remitted to the pension provider, and ordered £320.04. It also found breach of contract for failure to pay the employer pension contributions to the pension provider and ordered £202.20. The total awarded was £6,923.04 gross, with the judgment allowing deduction of any required income tax and employee National Insurance before payment if the respondent remitted those sums to HMRC.