THE INDUSTRIAL TRIBUNALS

CASE REF:	2458/12

CLAIMANT:			 Sam Coulter

RESPONDENT:		 Allseasons Homecare Limited

DECISION 
The decision of the tribunal is that the claimant’s claim for unlawful deduction from wages is allowed and the respondent is ordered to pay to the claimant £420.95 (£290.00 deducted for training and £130.95 for underpayment of wages).

Constitution of Tribunal:
Chairman (sitting alone):		Mr B Greene

Appearances:
The claimant appeared in person.

The respondent was neither in attendance nor represented.

1.	The claimant claimed £290.00 in respect of a deduction for training received by him; £130.95 for underpayments of wages and £91.00 for fourteen hours training received by him for which he was not paid.

2.	The tribunal rejected the claimant’s claim for the £91.00 for training received by him as the respondent had not been put on notice of such a claim and there is no authority in the claimant’s contract or the respondent’s handbook or otherwise to suggest that an employee should be paid for training received outside working hours.

3.	The tribunal allows the claimant’s claim for £290.00 deducted from his final wages for training arranged by the respondent for him and for arrears of pay of £130.95.

4.	Oral reasons for my decision were given at the tribunal.

5.	This is a relevant decision for the purposes of the Industrial Tribunals (Interest) Order (Northern Ireland) 1990.

Chairman:

Date and place of hearing:	16 April 2013, Belfast.	

Date decision recorded in register and issued to parties: