Industrial Tribunals Northern Ireland Decisions

THE INDUSTRIAL TRIBUNALS

 

CASE REF:  920/20

 

CLAIMANT:                          Christopher Bleakley

 

RESPONDENT:                  Metro Surveillance Group Ltd

 

 

 

JUDGMENT

 

The unanimous judgment of the tribunal is that the claimant’s claim of unauthorised deduction from wages is well founded and the respondent is ordered to pay the claimant the sum of £2,834.77

 

 

 

CONSTITUTION OF TRIBUNAL

 

Employment Judge:                                  Employment Judge Orr

                       

Members:                                                     Mr R McKnight

                                                                        Mr M McKeown

 

 

APPEARANCES:

 

The claimant appeared and was self-representing by WebEx.

 

The respondent did not appear and was not represented.

 

 

1.         An oral Judgment was announced at the end of the hearing together with full reasons.

 

2.         The respondent did not enter a response to the claimant’s claim. 

 

3.         The claimant gave sworn oral testimony at the hearing, the claimant’s evidence was undisputed and the tribunal was satisfied that the evidence was truthful and credible.

 

4.         After consideration of the claimant’s sworn evidence and the documentation evidence submitted to the tribunal by the claimant the tribunal unanimously determined that the claimant suffered an unauthorised deduction of wages contrary to Article 45 of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 in respect of failure to be paid wages for the months of September and October 2019, totalling £2,834.77.

 

 

5.         This is a relevant decision for the purposes of the Industrial Tribunals (Interest) Order (Northern Ireland) 1990.

 

           

 

Employment Judge:        

 

 

Date and place of hearing:          11 March 2022, (partially remote hearing) Belfast.

 

 

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