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Non-payment was illegal
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• A Cardiff industrial tribunal has ruled that complete nonpayment of wages amounted to an illegal deduction of the whole amount due on the dates when the payments should have been made, for the purposes of the 1986 Wages Act.
It has ordered Ring A Bin to pay driver W H Jones £724.89 compensation for unfair dismissal and for £1,598.20 that had been illegally deducted from his wages.
Jones said that in December he had been working on his vehicle when the landlord of the garage, the former proprietor of the business, locked it in the yard, explaining that he was distraining for about £1,000 owed in rent. The company told him to hang on while the matter was sorted out. Some weeks later he discovered his vehicle had been recovered — he was unable to get in touch with his employers and he had regarded himself as dismissed.
The tribunal said no justification for that dismissal had been put forward, and Jones automatically succeeded in his claim for unfair dismissal. He was owed three week's pay, five weeks' holiday pay and four week's notice.
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