Psychic failed to see future trouble in wages' dispute

A CLAIRVOYANT failed to see trouble ahead when she neglected to pay a child-minder her full wages.

Geena Stevenson was ordered to pay damages and unpaid wages on November 15 to her former employee Amina Dean.

Mrs Stevenson runs Sister Lucienna fortune-tellers from Lewisham.

The judgement was made at the employment tribunal in Mrs Stevenson's absence.

The tribunal heard that Mrs Stevenson had agreed to pay Mrs Dean £5 an hour as a full-time childminder.

But some wages remained outstanding and no payment had been made in lieu of notice when Mrs Dean's employment came an end.

Mrs Stevenson lives and works from the premises in Ermine Road, where Mrs Dean was employed to look after the clairvoyant's two-year-old daughter.

Mrs Dean, from Ongar in Essex, applied for the position in July after it was advertised in a classifieds newspaper.

The tribunal awarded Mrs Dean one week's notice pay of £240 and the £40 of wages she was still owed.

Mrs Stevenson declined to comment.