Tag Archives: Employment tribunals

ET claim numbers: nothing to see, move along

Posted on September 13, 2019 by wonkypolicywonk

So, the latest set of quarterly employment tribunal statistics – covering the period April to June 2019 (Q1 of 2019/20) – was published by the Ministry of Injustice yesterday, and it is time to play another round of that thrilling … Continue reading →

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Sharp fall in waiting time for next garbage article on ET claims

Posted on July 30, 2019 by wonkypolicywonk

As if driving around Madrid airport four times trying, and failing, to find the car rental return depot wasn’t enough to dampen my spirits at the end of my family holiday on Monday, my extended hours in the departure lounge … Continue reading →

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ET claims: the ultimate chart show

Posted on June 18, 2019 by wonkypolicywonk

A few days ago, on this blog, I noted the “big jump” in the number of articles in the #HR specialist press and elsewhere about the number of employment tribunal claims/cases, all featuring an eye-catching but totally rubbish theory by … Continue reading →

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ET claims: the new normal? Maybe not yet.

Posted on June 14, 2018 by wonkypolicywonk

“There is no such thing in life as normal”, sang my erstwhile hero Morrissey on his 2006 song ‘The youngest was the most loved’. But on this, as on so many things, Morrissey was wrong. Because, under the justice-denying fees … Continue reading →

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ET claims: the new normal

Posted on March 8, 2018 by wonkypolicywonk

So, with today’s publication by the Ministry of Injustice of the latest set of quarterly tribunal statistics, giving us five full months’ worth of ET claim/case statistics since the Supreme Court did the High Court’s job for it and ruled … Continue reading →

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ET fees: Supreme Court dumps on Clarke, Cable & Grayling

Posted on July 26, 2017 by wonkypolicywonk

🙏💻🙏📱🙏 👀💻👀📱👀 😀👀😄👀😃👀😆👀😝👀😂 🚫💷🚫 💥🎉👏🍸🍻🍷🎉🍺🎂🍸🍻 👏❤️💋 Supreme Court judges 💋❤️👏 👏👊😍 Adam Creme, Shantha David & Unison 😍👊👏 👏👊😎 Dinah Rose QC & Michael Ford QC 😎👊👏 👏👍😇 Caspar Glyn QC, Sean Jones QC, Darren Newman, Abi Adams & Jeremias Prassl 😇👍👏 😱⚠️ Ken Clarke, Vince Cable & … Continue reading →

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Give me six. Why not?

Posted on July 7, 2017 by wonkypolicywonk

Extend the time limit for submitting an employment tribunal claim – from three months to six months – in cases of pregnancy or maternity discrimination. Hmmm. Yep, I was pretty sceptical when serious people – including Equality & Human Rights … Continue reading →

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ET fees: lies, damn lies, and Ministry number-crunching

Posted on June 14, 2017 by wonkypolicywonk

Previously on this blog, I had a pop at the Ministry of Injustice’s attempt – in its laughably poor report of its laughably poor internal review of the ET fees regime introduced in July 2013 – to put a figure on … Continue reading →

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ET fees: a statistical injustice

Posted on June 9, 2017 by wonkypolicywonk

The quarterly employment tribunal (ET) statistics issued by the Ministry of Injustice haven’t been terribly newsworthy since the figures became somewhat lacking in variability in mid-2014. So there was very little chance of the latest set – published at 9.30am … Continue reading →

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Has the Ministry of Justice solved the problem of unpaid ET awards?

Posted on December 21, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

Last month on this blog, I included the low incidence to date of section 150 penalties for non-payment of an employment tribunal (ET) award – just 37 penalty notices, as of 4 November, according to BEIS’s answer to a parliamentary … Continue reading →

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