A car cleaner has been awarded just under £950 in compensation by an employment tribunal.

Lee Skillicorn began a job with Evergreen Wheels Ltd in September last year but claimed he was not paid for the work he had done.

An employment tribunal ruled that he suffered unlawful deductions and had received no payslips or holiday pay. It awarded him a total of £941.99 against Ross Charlton trading as Evergreen Wheels Ltd, based at a workshop on Demesne Road, Douglas.

Mr Skillicorn, who represented himself at the heating, explained he had responded to an advert on Facebook and had started his employment on Wednesday, September 11.

He testified that he was to be an employee rather than self-employed but Mr Charlton had not registered him for income tax purposes.

There had been no written particulars of employment provided.

Initially, he had started on a trial part-time basis but in the last week of September, he had worked for a full week beginning September 23.

It had been agreed that he would work full-time as needed as the business developed.

However, Mr Skillicorn indicated that his employment had ended on October 1 because, according to Mr Charlton, it was not economic to keep him on.

Mr Charlton told him that he would calculate what was due and would pay him for the hours that it should have taken Mr Skillicorn to do the work but not for the actual hours worked. He never did.

The claimant said he had been unpaid for 39.5 hours.

Mr Charlton and Evergreen Wheels entered no response to the claims and so were not entitled to take any part in the proceedings.

The employment tribunal awarded the claimant £310.07 for unlawful deductions and £549.50 for failure to give payslips.