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- Have you just received notification of a Tribunal?
- Do you want to prevent future Tribunals and preserve your bottom-line?
- Do you need to speak to someone about this matter now? At no cost or obligation?
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Have you just received notification of a Tribunal?
Do you want to help prevent future Tribunals and preserve your bottom-line?
Do you need to speak to someone about this matter now? At no cost or obligation?
You can not pick up a local paper nowadays, listen to commercial radio, or switch on a satellite or cable channel without encountering adverts from people offering to sue employers in the Employment Tribunals on behalf of employees (past or present) who feel they have a complaint against their boss.
Very often, these services are offered on a no-win/no-fee basis. The employee looks at that and figures that they've got nothing to lose.
As a result, claims to the Tribunal are rocketing, showing an unprecedented increases in claims levels and awards in recent years. From February 2003, an unfair dismissal claim might cost you up to £53,500 - plus all the legal costs!
Additionally, the number of fronts on which employers are vulnerable to attack is increasing dramatically (with the last three years in particular showing a massive increase in legislation and regulation), and the amount at risk in any given Tribunal is spiraling up to hitherto undreamed of heights.
Obviously, as the law becomes more complex, and the amount at risk in any given case becomes that much greater, more and more employers are realising that it's in their best interests to take appropriate legal advice, as early in the process as possible.
And here's an irony: your employee can bring his case, however spurious or cynical you might consider it, at no cost to himself, but as soon as that buff envelope lands on your desk, you're into costs of one sort or another, certainly lost opportunity costs of wasted management time, probably legal costs for your defence, perhaps even a massive award and your employee's legal fees if everything goes horribly wrong.
It is now possible to ensure that henceforth these risks are contained in your business, to the extent that if a Tribunal is brought against you in the future, it will be defended at no cost to yourselves, and in the event that the case is lost, all the attendant costs, awards and compensation, will be indemnified.
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The qualifying period for Unfair Dismissal claims is now TWELVE MONTHS, having been reduced from two years
The maximum award for Unfair Dismissal increases to £53,500 in February 2003
Very many types of claim have either a lower qualifying period than twelve months, or they have NO QUALIFYING PERIOD AT ALL.
Included among the latter are sex, race, disability, and Trade Union membership claims, any of which can result in UNLIMITED AWARDS.