Mr C Reast v Ecotrans UK Recycling Ltd

Case Number: 1808003/2023

EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS Claimant Respondent Mr C Reast v Ecotrans UK Recycling Ltd Heard at: Sheffield (by video link) On: Thursday 7 March 2024 Before: Employment Judge James Representation For the Claimant: Ms T Hanley, lay representative For the Respondent: Miss V Hall, lay representative

JUDGMENT (1) The claim for unauthorised deduction of wages (s.23 Employment Rights Act 1996) succeeds. The respondent is ordered to pay to the claimant the sum of £275.08.

WRITTEN REASONS

1. On the termination of the claimant’s employment, the respondent deducted the sum of £275.08 from his final wage, because the respondent alleged that the claimant had taken more holidays than he had accrued by the date his employment ended (following his resignation). The respondent said that the claimant had taken 16 days, when only 12.7 days had accrued. It rounded the balance down to three...