Read, Digital Desk : An Indian health and care worker is in line to receive significant compensation and holiday pay after taking a company that sponsored him into a British employment tribunal, because he was given no work to do. This included more than £28,000 in lost wages, he “arrived” into Britain “ready, able and willing” to work as a skilled worker, but the company he was sponsoring with was not prepared to employ him in the job previously promised to him. Shabin Shaji, 33, came to Britain on a health and care worker visa, receiving a sponsorship certificate from Swan Care Solutions Ltd for work in the health sector. It has recently come to light he told an employment tribunal in Birmingham that his sponsor would neither provide him with work, nor wages, which was treated as illegal deduction. Judge Edmunds Employment Judge ruled that he was an employee of his sponsor from 15/04/2023 until 21/04/2024 based on a salary of £22,880 per year based on a 40 hour week. The employer was ordered to repay missing wages, holiday pay, expenses incurred on medical procedures and costs of the court hearing at a tribunal last month. He was informed by his sponsor that his employment had “not actually started”. Mr Shaji, who relocated from Kerala to Stafford, West Midlands, could not legally seek other work in the UK because of visa rules. He later gained other full-time employment but had found himself in financial dire straits.
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