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• West Midlands haulier Alan Tomlinson, trading as A Tomlinson Haulage, has been ordered to repay £95.28 deducted from the wages of a driver to cover the cost of a load of Tarmac delivered to the wrong address.
However, a Birmingham Industrial Tribunal ruled that it had no power to order Tomlinson to pay a week's wages in lieu of the notice that driver Kevin Taylor claimed that he had never received.
Taylor said he had worked for Tomlinson for two months. He • delivered the Tarmac to the wrong address because he had failed to read the delivery note correctly, having forgotten his reading glasses.
The following day he was asked to contact Tomlinson, who told him that he was being sum madly dismissed and that there would be a deduction of S95.28 from his wages.
The tribunal said that under the 1986 Wages Act an employer must not make any deductions from an employee's wages unless required by statute, any relevant provision of the contract of employment, or the employee had previously signified his consent in writing.
It was clear that there was no authority for Tomlinson to make any deduction.