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The Office for Equality and Opportunity (OEO) has published the government’s response to the call for evidence on equality law which ran between 7...
HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has published an update Claim Form ET1A used to make a joint claim to an employment tribunal, replacing the...
This edition of Employment weekly highlights includes: (1) key employment announcements and developments in the Autumn 2026 Budget, (2) a Court of...
The government has accepted in full the Low Pay Commission (LPC) recommendations for the National Minimum Wage (NMW) and National Living Wage (NLW)...
The government has published proposed new benefit and pension rates for 2024 to 2025 including in respect of Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP), Statutory...
ET1 grounds of claim—indirect sex discrimination[Insert in para 8.2 of claim form ET1:]1The Claimant is a woman and the Respondent is [enter details,...
Waiver of noticeEmployers and employees can waive their right to be given notice when their employment relationship comes to an end.Waiving...
Constructive dismissaldismissal of an employee by their employer will typically be at the instigation of the employer. In other words, the employer...
When submitting an ET3 response, is the respondent required to copy the claimant into the email, or is it sufficient to submit the ET3 response to the employment tribunal (ie does rule 92 apply in relation to submission of ET3)?The procedure relating to employment tribunal claims is governed by the
No response, rejected response or claim not contested: employment tribunalsThe tribunal has a mechanism, under the Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules 2024 (ET Rules 2024), SI 2024/1155, Rule 22, for dealing with the situation where a respondent either does not wish to contest a claim against it, or
Settlement, withdrawal, dismissal of claims and consent orders in the employment tribunalIn this Practice Note, where appropriate, references to ‘claimant’ include a respondent advancing a counterclaim and references to ‘respondent’ include a claimant replying to such a counterclaim.The parties
Disclosure in employment tribunal proceedingsDocuments of one kind or another will form a significant part of the evidence in many employment tribunal cases. There is need for fair disclosure of them in the interests of justice. Many relevant documents will be in the possession of one party; for
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