{"id":199502,"date":"2025-10-03T12:58:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/199502\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T12:58:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:58:18","slug":"employment-tribunals-scandal-of-toothless-scheme-to-punish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/199502\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment tribunals: \u2018scandal\u2019 of toothless scheme to punish\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cHe was shouting, swearing and threatening me with debt collectors,\u201d she told the tribunal.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But Rosie was the one who had to enlist help to recover the money she was owed. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">When high court enforcement officers went to Elvidge\u2019s home address, he told them the company was no longer trading and had no assets \u2013 so it had no means to pay.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In its latest accounts, Motorflix posted more than \u00a320,000 in tangible assets. But when Elvidge hired Rosie, he set up a separate company to employ her: Motorflix Media Ltd. This company has never filed accounts and all references it were removed from the Motorflix website after we contacted Elvidge for comment. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI think it\u2019s a shambles,\u201d Rosie said. \u201cMy ex-employer can literally just say \u2018I&#8217;ve got no money, I&#8217;ve got no assets\u2019, and the bailiffs do nothing \u2013 don\u2019t ask for proof, don\u2019t push the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Rosie has contacted the government\u2019s enforcement scheme, the insolvency service and even her MP, Toby Perkins, who wrote to the Department for Business and Trade and to Elvidge. But to no avail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe was shouting, swearing and threatening me with debt collectors,\u201d she told the tribunal. But Rosie was the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[28,134,41773,37119],"class_list":["post-199502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-business","tag-jobs","tag-justice-system","tag-workers-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}