Tag Archives: ET fees

ET fees: my response to the MoJ consultation

Posted on February 28, 2024 by wonkypolicywonk

Earlier this month, on this blog, I posted my initial thoughts about the surprisingly-timed Ministry of Justice consultation on Employment Tribunal (ET) fees, launched on 29 January, as well as some further thoughts and my proposal for an alternative fees … Continue reading →

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Employment Tribunal fees: How to fee, *that* is the question

Posted on February 5, 2024 by wonkypolicywonk

Last week on this blog, I set out my initial response to the Ministry of Justice proposal to introduce modest fees for Employment Tribunal (ET) claimants and Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) appellants. In short, given the dire state of public … Continue reading →

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Employment Tribunal fees: Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before

Posted on January 30, 2024 by wonkypolicywonk

A ripple of excitement ran through ’employment law & policy’ X (formerly ’employment law & policy’ Twitter) yesterday, when the Ministry of Justice unexpectedly presented us with an opportunity to dust off a much-used hashtag from the past: #ETfees It … Continue reading →

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Employment Tribunal cases: the new normal

Posted on December 18, 2023 by wonkypolicywonk

The latest set of quarterly Tribunal statistics – published last week – indicates that, having risen steadily from mid-2017 (when fees were abolished) to a Covid-induced peak in late 2020, the number of new Employment Tribunal cases has now settled … Continue reading →

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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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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 claim statistics: No alarms, no surprises

Posted on June 13, 2019 by wonkypolicywonk

Three months ago, on this blog, I rashly suggested that Employment Tribunal (ET) claim/case numbers may at last have settled at a new, post-ET fees ‘normal’. And the latest set of quarterly statistics, published by the Ministry of Injustice this morning, … Continue reading →

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ET claim/case numbers: the new normal?

Posted on March 16, 2019 by wonkypolicywonk

Nine months ago, in June 2018, I noted on this blog that Employment Tribunal (ET) claim/case numbers had still not settled at a new, post-ET fees normal. Having seemingly stabilised in Quarter 3 of 2017/18, the numbers had then increased … 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: the backlash starts

Posted on September 24, 2017 by wonkypolicywonk

The much belated but very welcome victory for common sense and the common law – the latter being a fairly straightforward legal concept seemingly long forgotten by the allegedly planet-sized brains in the High Court and Court of Appeal – … Continue reading →

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