Sentences with phrase «tribunal fees regime»
Minutes from the latest meeting of the Employment Tribunal National User Group have revealed that, since the employment tribunal fees regime came to an end last year, there has been a 100 % increase in the number of claims received by employment tribunals compared to the period immediately before the Unison decision in which employment tribunal fees were held to be unlawful.
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Minutes from the latest meeting of the Employment Tribunal National User Group have revealed that, since the employment tribunal fees regime came to an end last year, there has been a 100 % increase in the number of claims received by employment tribunals...
The Supreme Court also granted permission to appeal to Unison, the trade union, in its challenge to the lawfulness of the employment tribunal fees regime introduced by the coalition government.
Employment tribunal fees: the Supreme Court also granted permission to appeal to Unison, the trade union, in its challenge to the lawfulness of the employment tribunal fees regime introduced by the coalition government.
Not exact matches
If a statute allows for tribunal costs, a regime of fixed tribunal fees in advance has significant merits over a regime that allows — and effectively requires — a losing respondent to dredge through the actual reimbursable disbursements of panellists, for example, to ensure reasonableness.
Before the introduction of the fees regime, access to employment tribunals was free of charge.
The Supreme Court has allowed the appeal by Unison against the legality of employment tribunal fees, holding that the current fees regime prevents access to justice and is unlawful.
With the abolition of the fees regime, the number of tribunal claims has started to increase, so this month we go back to basics and discuss:
Among the things that the Court took account of were «a dramatic and persistent fall in the number of claims» brought in Employment Tribunals following the introduction of fees, and a singularly ungenerous regime for reducing or waiving fees for those least able to pay.