--- title: "Jersey electrician awarded £33,600 after employer paid him £2,500 for six months" url: https://www.nsfw.info/electrician-awarded-33600-employer-paid-2500-six-months/ published: 2026-10-19T10:00:55+00:00 modified: 2026-10-19T10:00:55+00:00 author: "Chief Editor" categories: ["Employment"] image: https://www.nsfw.info/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/electrician-awarded-33600-employer-paid-2500-six-months-1024x572.webp summary: "A Jersey tribunal awarded electrician Joshua Masefield £33,611 after ICE Electrical paid him just £2,500 for over six months of work and failed to remit his tax" publisher: NSFW (https://www.nsfw.info) --- # Jersey electrician awarded £33,600 after employer paid him £2,500 for six months **In brief:** A Jersey electrician has been awarded more than £33,600 by a tribunal after his employer paid him just £2,500 for over six months of work. I.C.E Electrical Limited also failed to pass on his income tax and social security deductions to Revenue Jersey. The tribunal chair described the employer’s conduct as “reprehensible.” ## Six Months of Work, a Fraction of the Pay Joshua Masefield began working for I.C.E Electrical Limited in January 2024, agreeing an hourly rate of £17 for a guaranteed 40-hour week, the Jersey Evening Post reports. Despite repeated requests, he was never given a written contract. Payslips became sporadic during 2025 and stopped altogether after November of that year. From December 2025, the company stopped paying his full weekly wage. Over more than 28 weeks, occasional payments totalling £2,500 left him £14,341 short in net wages. That is not a rounding error or a payroll glitch: it is more than half a year of a working man’s income, simply withheld. Masefield resigned in June, a decision the tribunal recognised as constructive unfair dismissal, given that the unpaid wages and failure to remit contributions amounted to a fundamental breach of his contract. ## The Tax and Social Security Sting The situation was made considerably worse by what happened, or rather what did not happen, with his deductions. Throughout his employment, Masefield had been told that income tax and social security contributions were being passed to Revenue Jersey. He later discovered that no payments had been made after May 2025. The tribunal identified £2,244 in social security deductions and £7,931.20 in income tax deductions that had been taken from his pay but never forwarded to the relevant authorities. The judgment confirmed he was entitled to credits for those sums. In other words, money was leaving his pocket under the pretence of meeting his legal obligations, while going nowhere near Revenue Jersey. The tribunal also noted that losing his employment prevented Masefield from completing certain electrical qualifications linked to work experience, adding a longer-term professional cost to the immediate financial one. ## Tribunal’s Verdict and the Award I.C.E Electrical Limited did not submit a response to Masefield’s claims, entitling him to judgment in default. The company was notified of the hearing to determine his award but did not seek permission to attend. Its absence from proceedings speaks volumes. Tribunal chair Advocate Dr Elena Moran pulled no punches in her assessment. “The employer’s conduct has been reprehensible, especially the non-payment of wages and non-remittance of contributions,” she said. She awarded the maximum 12 weeks’ compensation for unfair dismissal and then increased that element by 25 per cent because of the employer’s conduct, bringing it to £10,200. The overall award of £33,611, dated 1 October, covered unpaid wages, holiday pay, notice pay, and compensation for the absence of a written contract and payslips. The company was ordered to pay within 14 days of the judgment. ## The NSFW Perspective There is something almost darkly comic about an employer that ignores a tribunal, skips the hearing, and presumably hopes the whole thing goes away. It does not, of course, and now I.C.E Electrical Limited has a £33,611 judgment against its name and a very public record of conduct described as reprehensible by a tribunal chair. For workers in Jersey, this case is a useful reminder that the Employment and Discrimination Tribunal does have teeth, even when an employer refuses to show up. For employers, it is an equally useful reminder that a written contract is not optional bureaucracy: it is basic legal protection for both sides, and its absence here contributed directly to the award against the company. The failure to remit tax and social security contributions is the detail that ought to raise eyebrows beyond the employment sphere. Revenue Jersey will no doubt be taking a close interest in I.C.E Electrical’s affairs, if it is not already. One hopes the 14-day payment deadline proves more persuasive than six months of wage requests did. *Source: [Jersey Evening Post](https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2026/10/19/electrician-awarded-33600-after-employer-withheld-thousands-of-pounds-of-wages)*