Mr M Bower v Maris Logistics Ltd — 2025

The tribunal dismissed the claimant's complaint of unauthorised deductions from wages in respect of payments dated 19 August 2024 and 20 September 2024, and it also dismissed the breach of contract complaint about mileage expenses. By contrast, it upheld the breach of contract complaint about notice pay and awarded one week's pay, stated as £1,067.30, as damages. The tribunal said the figure was calculated using gross pay to reflect the likelihood that the claimant would have to pay tax on it as Post Employment Notice Pay.

The tribunal also upheld the holiday pay complaint, finding that the respondent failed to pay the claimant in accordance with regulation 14(2) of the Working Time Regulations 1998. The written record states that the claimant was to receive two days' pay, with the claimant responsible for any tax or National Insurance, but the extracted text does not state the numeric amount of that award. The tribunal further found that the respondent failed to give the claimant written itemised pay statements as required by section 8 Employment Rights Act 1996 for the period 1 May 2023 to 27 December 2024.

On the separate written statement issue, the tribunal found that when the proceedings were begun the respondent was not in breach of its duty to provide the claimant with a written statement of employment particulars. The claimant's statutory redundancy payment claim was dismissed on withdrawal, and the respondent's employer contract claim was also dismissed on withdrawal.