Well having been tipped off in advance that the Supreme Court was to hand down its Judgment in the Unison challenge to Tribunal fees, I was simply in the dark as to the news storm this would create. I will admit I was surprised that the Supreme Court decided that ET fees were unlawful. I […]
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ET decisions now public
As previously reported, the MOJ has now launched its online service. All Employment Tribunal Judgments will now appear on the online database going forward. In addition, the MOJ has started to upload some of the older 2016 judgments. You can access the database here. Having looked at a few searches the functionality seems limited but […]
Employment Tribunal Fees Review
Finally the Government has published its long awaited review of the Employment Tribunal Fees. The Report acknowledges that the drop in claims was significantly greater than it had anticipated for claims post introduction of fees v before. The report accepts that people have been discouraged from making claims but says that there is no conclusive […]
Financial penalties fail to hit where it hurts!
On the 6th April 2014 the Government introduced new financial penalties for employers who lost in the Employment Tribunal. Employer’s who breached a worker’s rights where there was one or more aggravating features faced potential fines. In response to a parliamentary question, the business minister admitted this week that it had only been used 18 times […]
Reasons not to bring a Tribunal Claim
When analysing the reasons why Claimant’s decide not to proceed with their claim following ACAS EC there has been much speculation that this is because of the introduction of fees which are preventing access to justice. ACAS has carried out their own research into the reasons people provide as to their rationale as to why […]
Employment tribunals decisions to be online
The HM Courts and Tribunal Service has announced plans to introduce a new online database of employment tribunal decisions. This will take the form of a new database which anyone can search online. It is expected to go live this Autumn. It will include judgments from England, Wales and Scotland and will initially only cover […]
Latest Tribunal Statistics
The Tribunal statistics for the period April – June 2016 have been released. They show a marginal drop in single claims compared to the same period last year (3%) and that there has been a further increase in multiple claims by 38% for the same period. Over 15,000 claims were issued in that three month […]
Rejecting ET claims
The EAT has held in the recent case of Trustees of the William Jones’s School Foundation v Parry that rule 12(1)(b) of the Employment Tribunal Rules might be outside the scope of the primary legislation which made those rules. This is technically known as being “ultra vires”. The Claimant submitted an ET1 just within the limitation period […]
Non-payment of ET Awards
A new scheme for penalising employers who fail to pay tribunal awards or settlement sums came into force on 6 April 2016. Section 150 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 inserted the penalties into part 2A (sections 37A to 37Q) of the Employment Tribunals Act 1996. The Department of Business, Innovation and […]
New maximum compensatory award
As the Excello Law data card goes to print and before I mail these out to clients’ a reminder that the limit on the week’s pay will increase from 6th April 2016 to £479 from the current limit of £475. This means that the maximum basic award will increase from £14,250 to £14,370 and the […]
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