Mr H Dev v Fidelity Consultancy Limited — 2025

Mr H Dev did not attend the hearing. Fidelity Consultancy Limited gave evidence that it had offered him a web developer role in October 2023, agreed to sponsor his UK visa, and placed him on payroll from 1 November 2023 for sponsorship reasons. The respondent said he never attended for work, did not sign the employment contract required by the visa sponsorship arrangements, and that sponsorship was withdrawn after about four months because no work had been done.

The tribunal dismissed the claim for unauthorised deductions from wages. It recorded that the claimant had not produced a schedule of loss, had not produced evidence showing that he was employed by the respondent or that he provided services, and had not addressed the respondent's position despite being on notice of it. The tribunal also noted that the agreed salary was £23,000, that the claimant had stated £35,000 in his ET1, and that if 3 May 2024 was the last day of employment on his own case the claim appeared to have been presented out of time. It found he had not shown that it was not reasonably practicable to present the claim before the time limit expired.