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Employment tribunals

Employment rights are enforced in the employment tribunal. For example, employment tribunals consider complaints of unfair dismissal and discrimination. Employment tribunals can also consider breach of contract claims if the value of the claim does not exceed £25,000.

Employment tribunal proceedings are started by the claimant completing and submitting an ET1 claim form within the required time limit. The ET3 response form is the employer’s response to the claim form.

Fees are payable and an early conciliation process must be followed before an employment tribunal claim can proceed.


    • Employment law
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    New rates for employment tribunal awards from April

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Mar 2025

    The draft Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2025, which applies to England, Wales and Scotland, is now before parliament.

    • Case law
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    • Education

    Court of Appeal finds Ofsted inspector was unfairly dismissed

    by Jo Faragher 19 Mar 2025
    by Jo Faragher 19 Mar 2025

    An Ofsted inspector who was sacked after brushing water off a child’s head was unfairly dismissed, according to the Court of Appeal.

    • Disability discrimination
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    • Discrimination

    Police sergeant’s ‘scattergun’ allegations dismissed by tribunal

    by Jo Faragher 17 Mar 2025
    by Jo Faragher 17 Mar 2025

    A Met Police sergeant who brought 271 individual allegations to an employment tribunal has had all claims dismissed.

    • Employment law
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    • Economics, government & business

    Employment lawyers call for cash boost to tribunal system

    by Jo Faragher 14 Mar 2025
    by Jo Faragher 14 Mar 2025

    The Employment Lawyers’ Association wants the government to stop treating employment tribunals as a ‘poor relation’ to other court cases.

    • Age discrimination
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    • Manufacturing

    Engineer awarded £25k after employer ‘trespassed’ his home

    by Rob Moss 14 Mar 2025
    by Rob Moss 14 Mar 2025

    Engineer wins unfair dismissal and age discrimination claim in a case where employment tribunal found colleagues had trespassed his home.

    • Age discrimination
    • Constructive dismissal
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    Estate agent constructively dismissed after desk move ‘demotion’

    by Rob Moss 11 Mar 2025
    by Rob Moss 11 Mar 2025

    An estate agent who felt demoted after he transferred to another branch where his desk would be in the middle...

    • Collective redundancy
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    • Employment tribunals

    HR professionals reveal their fears over making employees redundant

    by Adam McCulloch 7 Mar 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 7 Mar 2025

    Legal risk and the prospect of employment tribunal claims are the main concerns of organisations when making redundancies, not the loss of skills.

    • Constructive dismissal
    • NHS
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    Nurse left out of tea round wins constructive dismissal claim

    by Jo Faragher 28 Feb 2025
    by Jo Faragher 28 Feb 2025

    A nurse who was deliberately left out of a tea round and was consistently ignored by a colleague has won £41,000 for constructive dismissal.

    • Right to work
    • Disability discrimination
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    Unfairly dismissed Edinburgh professor awarded £1m

    by Rob Moss 26 Feb 2025
    by Rob Moss 26 Feb 2025

    Engineering professor unfairly dismissed by the University of Edinburgh awarded more than £1m after a 13-year legal battle.

    • Age discrimination
    • Case law
    • Legal sector

    Law firm discriminated against partner with compulsory retirement policy

    by Jo Faragher 24 Feb 2025
    by Jo Faragher 24 Feb 2025

    A law firm discriminated against a senior partner through a mandatory retirement policy, a tribunal has found.

    • Civil Service
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    • Economics, government & business

    Fall of Kabul whistleblower wins unfair dismissal case

    by Jo Faragher 19 Feb 2025
    by Jo Faragher 19 Feb 2025

    A civil servant who blew the whistle on the UK’s withdrawal from Afghanistan has won a case for unfair dismissal against the Foreign Office.

    • Latest News
    • Pregnancy and maternity discrimination
    • Employment tribunals

    Property consultant with morning sickness awarded £94k after ‘jazz hands’ dismissal

    by Rob Moss 18 Feb 2025
    by Rob Moss 18 Feb 2025

    Employee who suffered from morning sickness awarded £93,600 after she was dismissed in a message that included a ‘jazz hands’ emoji.

    • Case law
    • Bullying and harassment
    • Scotland

    Nurse at centre of trans tribunal faces conduct hearing

    by Jo Faragher 17 Feb 2025
    by Jo Faragher 17 Feb 2025

    The nurse at the centre of a tribunal against her employer, NHS Fife, has been asked to attend a conduct...

    • Constructive dismissal
    • NHS
    • Latest News

    Countess of Chester NHS chair resigns after damning tribunal findings

    by Jo Faragher 17 Feb 2025
    by Jo Faragher 17 Feb 2025

    The chairman of the Countess of Chester hospital has resigned after a tribunal found that he and others had ‘conspired’ to oust the trust’s chief executive, Dr Susan Gilby.

    • Employment law
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    • Employment tribunals

    American church organist unfairly dismissed from Surrey post, rules tribunal

    by Adam McCulloch 14 Feb 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 14 Feb 2025

    An organist from the US has won a wrongful dismissal case at an employment tribunal against a parish church.
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