‘I won £65,000 at an employment tribunal – but I haven’t seen a penny’

Nadine Fallone was awarded a £ 65,000 by an employment court for unjust treatment and dismissal after reporting the personnel using drugs at the bar she directed.

However, after a year, he did not receive any money, although he used a government plan established to cope with the payments of the employment court.

And he’s not alone. As part of the BBC investigation, three of the 7,000 people who use this scheme still did not pay.

A government spokesman said that the system was founded by predecessors and “every worker should receive payments they owe”.

Nadine said to the BBC that it was “probably the worst experience of my life” to take the company Peckham Leves Ltd to a court.

Both sides said that they made offers to settle in the BBC, but the case went to a full hearing and a compensation for £ 28,750 for Nadine harmful treatment, £ 35,250 for unfair dismissal.

Weeks after the decision, Peckham Legs Ltd entered the administration and left Nadine without a way to regain her award.

“I lost my sense of joy,” he says. “When you say you’ve been damaged by a judge and you still say you can’t get this money – it worsens it even worse, or he says.

Preston Benson, former director of Peckham levels, is currently director of 12 businesses.

In a statement, the case caused by the case Nadine was “deeply upset”, he said.

Mr. Benson pointed out that there was no “legal ability” to pay the award after entering the company.

Employment Court Penal Application and Naming Program It was founded by the conservative government in 2016, the survey of 1,200 plaintiffs dated 2013 found that more than one third did not receive any money.

Within the scope of the free plan, companies are faced with a penalty if they do not pay within 28 days and they can do since 2018 It should also be called online By the government.

However, more than 5,000 people from approximately 7,000 people using the plan did not receive their payment or reconciliation, data from the request for freedom of information.

Data, despite more than 4,800 penalties, shows that only 109 of the government has recorded more than 9 million united value.

In addition, despite the approximately 4,000 requests, he argues that the government has not been named after the government so far.

Findings are part of a common project with the researcher journalism office.

Rosie Davies was given £ 6,000 on unpaid wages and violations of the contract after losing its business in motor sports.

But 18 months later, he says, “He’s still waiting for a penny of money.”

The plaintiffs can follow their awards through the Supreme Court – but the government does not follow how many people are successful.

Rosie used both plans to try to get the award from Christian Elvidge, a production company Motorflix Ltd.

He hired Rosie through a separate company – Motorflix Media Ltd. He was the only employee.

Mr Elvidge was sent penalty notifications and the Supreme Court executive officials went home. However, Rosie says that when Mr. Elvidge declares that there is no existence of Motorflix Media LTD, it is not followed any more.

The company is still registered, but has not yet offered any account.

In addition to the stress of passing the court, Rosie said that she did not “leave the money aside for financial and returned with her mother.

“I feel that I have been back for five years, or he says. “I don’t have the life I make for myself anymore.”

Rosie applied for the employer to be called online – but he was not successful.

Now he wishes to “not bother” with the court system.

“I thought the justice system would go in and make sure I got this money, or he says.

Christian Elvidge was contacted for a comment, but did not answer.

Each year, tens of thousands of employment courts are launched – but the majority was solved, retreated or solved before a hearing began.

According to the Ministry of Justice, 491,000 claims were open in March 2025.

Citizens’ advice, the employment court system “completely broken,” he said.

“To jump from all these circles and to get a court prize that is never paid later,” said the policy manager Emer Shehy.

The Federation of Small Enterprises is among those who want the system to be “overhaul”.

Policy Director Tina McKenzie said the courts may also be costly for businesses.

“There is currently more than a year of waiting list, and if the government brings it suggesting reforms, it will worse,” he says.

He said that the most common reason for not paying from an employment court is the bankruptcy of the company-something he says is a certain issue in the pandemic years covered by the laris.

Persons operating limited companies are not personally responsible for the debts of this company.

Tina McKenzie from FSB says it is not “good to miss some people – but argues that” the last four to five years are closed for 500,000 work “.

When a company goes bankrupt, he thinks that there may be a case for a “central England Pot” that pays the court prize.

“We know that it requires improvement because we plan to strengthen the implementation of unpaid rewards as part of the change plan.”