Hotel first to be guilty of breaching minimum wage

It is the first company in Guernsey to have been found not to have done so since the law was introduced in 2010.

A tribunal has now ordered ESS Ltd, which operates the hotel, to pay £370.65 to Margareta Stoica.

It ruled the sum was the difference between the pay she had received and what she had would have been paid at the minimum wage of £6.30 per hour between 28 June and 31 August.

Mrs Stoica was employed as chambermaid last summer and was paid £1,000 a month. She provided written evidence that on the days she worked a full shift, her hours were 7.30am to 3.30pm.

Hotel Jerbourg director Paula Scambler claimed Mrs Stoica was 'never asked to work more than 40 hours per week'.

However, the tribunal said it could only rely on the hours noted in Mrs Stoica's written evidence since Mrs Scambler had no records to support her claims.