The recruitment industry’s trade body, the REC, has expelled a medical recruitment agency.

Mild Professional Care, based in Rochford, Essex, left the REC after an employment tribunal found in favour of a locum doctor’s claim for unpaid wages and holiday pay.

The tribunal ruled that the agency failed to define clear and fair contractual terms, including pay, and ruled the doctor was entitled to nearly £25,000 in unpaid wages.

After the doctor, a consultant psychiatrist, reported the agency to the REC, the trade body launched its own investigation.

Its professional standards committee ruled that the agency should be expelled. The ban runs for two years, after which the agency can apply to rejoin.

Claire Walker, professional standards manager at the REC, said: “An employment tribunal finding against an agency is something we investigate. The agency had not cooperated and there was breach of our regulations.”

A spokesman for Mild claimed the agency had resigned from the REC after deciding not to appeal against the committee’s ruling.