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Driver wins more than £2,000 at tribun,

2nd November 2006
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A SCOTTISH OPERATOR has been ordered to pay a driver £2,331 by an Edinburgh Employment Tribunal due to unlawful deductions from his wages. failure to pay holiday pay and breach of contract.

James Reddington told the Tribunal that he began working for Dunedin Logistics of Armadale, West Lothian as a Class I driver on or about the beginning of September 2005. When he started he had to work a week in hand before he was paid. During his employment with the company he received no paid annual leave. Around early April of this year he was advisc one of Dunedin's directors that work was shori that he should take the following day as a rest da. contacted the firm a number of times over the flex to three weeks to try and establish what the pos was. Each time he was told that the situation rema the same, that he would be told when he was to c back to work and that he would continue to be pai He initially received payments in cash, but ha received no payments for a couple of weeks he vi the firm's premises around 25 April, when one o directors told him the company had ceased to tra The Tribunal said that by that stage Reddington not been paid for two weeks and had not been for the week worked in hand. He was given no pt lieu of notice. He had received no compensatioi annual leave, which he had not taken.

The Tribunal ordered the company to pay weeks' wages, representing two weeks unpaid. week in lieu of notice and the week worked in h plus accrued holiday pay.

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