Employer Must Compensate for Unauthorised Wages, Not Pension Failures

OUTCOME: Allowed in Part

Case Number: 6029585/2025

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EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS

Claimant: [redacted]

Respondent: [redacted]

[COMPANY] (in public, by CVP)

On:

18 March 2026

Before:

Employment Judge D Massarella

Representation

For the Claimant: [redacted] For the Respondent: [redacted]

The judgment of the Tribunal is as follows:

1. The Respondent having conceded that it made unauthorised deductions from the Claimant’s wages between February and July 2025, by consent it is ordered to pay to the Claimant the net sum of £26,665.29, without any deductions; the Respondent shall be liable for any tax and national insurance on this sum;

2. The Tribunal does not have jurisdiction to hear claims in relation to an employer’s failure to make pension contributions; that claim is dismissed.

Employment Judge D Massarella

Dated: 18 March 2026

Note Reasons for the judgment having been given orally at the hearing, written reasons will not be provided unless a request was made by either party at the hearing or a written request is presented by either party within 14 days of the sending of this written record of the decision.

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Case Number: 6029585/2025

EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS

Claimant: [redacted]

Respondent: [redacted]

[COMPANY] (in public, by CVP)

On:

18 March 2026

Before:

Employment Judge Massarella

Representation

Claimant: [redacted]

Respondent: [redacted]

THE CORRECTION TO THE NAME OF THE RESPONDENT IS SHOWN IN BLOCK TYPE UNDERLINED ABOVE. The judgment of the Tribunal is as follows: 1. the Respondent having conceded that it made unauthorised deductions from the Claimant’s wages between February and July 2025, by consent it is ordered to pay to the Claimant the net sum of £26,665.29, without any deductions; the Respondent shall be liable for any tax and national insurance on this sum; 2. the Tribunal does not have jurisdiction to hear claims in relation to an employer’s failure to make pension contributions;

Case Number: 6029585/2025

that claim is dismissed.

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Employment Judge Massarella

Dated: 5 May 2026

Case Number: 6029585/2025

THE EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS

Claimant: [redacted]

Respondent: [redacted] EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL PROCEDURE RULES 2024

Under the provisions of Rule 67 of the 2024 Rules, the judgment on liability and remedy, sent to the parties on 27 March 2026, is corrected as set out in block type underlined in the header to the judgment, replacing ‘[RESPONDENT]’ with ‘[RESPONDENT] [COMPANY] [RESPONDENT] in the name of the Respondent.

Signed: Judge Massarella Employment Judge of the Tribunal

Dated: 5 May 2026

Important note to parties: Any dates for the filing of appeals or reviews are not changed by this certificate of correction and corrected judgment. These time limits still run from the date of the original judgment, or original judgment with reasons, when appealing.