Employment Tribunals

Case No. 2404211/2017 1 EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS Claimant: Mr L Schofield Respondent: Rocketfish Limited HELD AT: Manchester ON: 14 December 2017 BEFORE: Employment Judge Tom Ryan REPRESENTATION: Claimant: Respondent: In person Mr L Payne, director JUDGMENT The judgment of the Tribunal is that: 1. The complaint of unauthorised deductions from wages is well founded. 2. The respondent is ordered to pay the claimant the sum of £2,072.18 by or before 21 December 2017 REASONS 1. By a claim presented to the Tribunal on 30 August 2017 the claimant brought a complaint of unauthorised deductions from wages. The respondent resisted the claim but set out no reasoned basis for doing so. 2. At the outset of this hearing Mr Payne accepted that the claimant was owed wages by the respondent. He did not dispute that the calculation which the claimant had presented showing wages owed of £2,072.18. 3. For that reason I gave judgment for the claimant in that sum. 4. When I asked Mr Payne when the sum could be paid to the claimant he told me that he thought his business was “going under”. In those circumstances I considered it appropriate that payment should be made without further delay and Case No. 2404211/2017 2 ordered that payment to be made within 7 days of the date of hearing. The respondent did not object. _____________________________ Employment Judge Tom Ryan Date 14 December 2017 JUDGMENT SENT TO THE PARTIES ON 18 December 2017 FOR THE TRIBUNAL OFFICE Case No. 2404211/2017 3 NOTICE THE EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (INTEREST) ORDER 1990 Tribunal case number: 2404211/2017 Name of case: Mr L Schofield v Rocketfish Limited The Employment Tribunals (Interest) Order 1990 provides that sums of money payable as a result of a judgment of an Employment Tribunal (excluding sums representing costs or expenses), shall carry interest where the full amount is not paid within 14 days after the day that the document containing the tribunal’s written judgment is recorded as having been sent to parties. That day is known as “the relevant decision day”. The date from which interest starts to accrue is called “the calculation day” and is the day immediately following the relevant decision day. The rate of interest payable is that specified in section 17 of the Judgments Act 1838 on the relevant decision day. This is known as "the stipulated rate of interest" and the rate applicable in your case is set out below. The following information in respect of this case is provided by the Secretary of the Tribunals in accordance with the requirements of Article 12 of the Order:- "the relevant decision day" is: 18 December 2017 "the calculation day" is: 19 December 2017 "the stipulated rate of interest" is: 8% For the Employment Tribunal Office