Mr V Lazerevas v JH Transport Limited — 2023

The respondent did not defend the claim and did not attend the case management preliminary hearing. After the tribunal issued a note setting out the sums sought and received no response, the case proceeded on the material available. The tribunal found that the respondent had ceased paying the claimant and had ceased contact. On that basis, it found that 66 days' wages remained unpaid at £120 per day, producing £7,920 gross, and that six days' holiday pay remained due at £120 per day, producing £720 gross.

The tribunal held that the wages claim succeeded as an unlawful deduction from wages under section 13 of the Employment Rights Act 1996. It also held that accrued but untaken holiday pay could be ordered under the Working Time Regulations 1998, referring to regulations 13, 13A and 14. The award was made in gross figures, subject to deductions required by law.

The tribunal rejected the claimant's request for compensation for 'lost time and lost savings debt and unemployment insurance due', saying that this was not something it had power to compensate. It then recorded that the claimant confirmed those were all the sums he was seeking and that the remaining claims were dismissed. The judgment does not separately analyse those dismissed claims.