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Firm ordered to repay deductions
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A HAULAGE FIRM that deducted more than Z900 from a driver's wages after he failed to repay a loan has been ordered to return the money by Birmingham Employment Tribunal, AK Logistics Solutions, Strathclyde, loaned the money to Wayne Cowell so he could take his C+E driving test to further his career.
The Tribunal was told by managing director James King that the arrangement made between the company and the driver was that Cowell would stay with the firm for at least a year after taking the test and would repay the loan in instalments from his wages.
But King said that Cowell left after only two months with AK Logistics, shortly after he had passed the test at the firm's expense. "He left without paying the money back, so we deducted it from his final wages," King said. King was opposing a compensation claim by Cowell for unauthorised wage deduction.
Tribunal chairman Ann Goraj said the firm faced losing the case because there had not been a signed agreement about how the loan should be repayed.
RK Logistics was told to pay Cowell £913. It is now trying to recover the loan from Cowell through the county courts.