Mr Chris Chambers v Rippling UK Limited — 2024

The claimant was employed by Rippling UK Limited as an Account Executive from 10 July 2023 to 9 January 2024. His contract provided an annual salary of £60,000 and a guaranteed monthly commission of £3,333.34 for the first four complete months of employment. The dispute before the tribunal concerned a November 2023 payment of £1,398.69 and the claimant's case that Mr Rodriguez had told him the same sum would be paid again in January 2024.

The tribunal accepted Mr Rodriguez's evidence that he had not agreed to pay £1,398.69 again in January 2024, that he had not negotiated the claimant's commission terms, and that he had no authority to do so. It also found that the claimant's own evidence about the original four-month guaranteed commission arrangement with Mr Donaldson did not support the later assertion that the £1,398.69 should be paid again. The October 2023 commission had been the subject of a true-up payment of £1,892.98 on 12 December 2023 to bring the total to the guaranteed £3,333.34, and the tribunal therefore dismissed the complaints of unlawful deduction from wages and breach of contract.

The claimant also sought compensation under section 24(2) ERA 1996 for financial loss said to arise from late payment of two guaranteed commission instalments. The tribunal held that it had no jurisdiction to award that compensation because no unlawful deduction complaint had been brought in respect of those late payments and, in any event, no financial loss was proved. It also recorded that the respondent had identified a separate shortfall of £83.34 in the August and October 2023 guaranteed commission payments and said that amount would be paid, but the tribunal did not make a formal award in respect of that shortfall.