11th November 2021
I hope you are well. I know you may be busy but I just wanted to quickly catch up with you about the research I sent over recently revealing the biggest employment tribunals in recent years and the increase since the pandemic.
Since 2020, over 23,000 UK workers have made tribunal complaints against their employer for unfair dismissal.
Legal experts at Wright Hassall have revealed the most common tribunal complaints between 2020-21. So, which complaints have seen the biggest increases?
You can view the full research here - https://www.wrighthassall.co.uk/knowledge-base/employment-tribunals-workplace-disputes-in-the-uk
Top 10 most common tribunal complaints
|
Rank |
Tribunal Cause |
2020/21 Total |
|
1 |
Unfair dismissal |
23,904 |
|
2 |
Working Time Directive |
20,867 |
|
3 |
Unauthorised deductions (formerly Wages Act) |
17,816 |
|
4 |
Age Discrimination |
15,336 |
|
5 |
Breach of contract |
14,836 |
|
6 |
Equal pay |
8,509 |
|
7 |
Disability discrimination |
7,430 |
|
8 |
Redundancy – failure to inform and consult |
7,072 |
|
9 |
Redundancy pay |
6,453 |
|
10 |
Sex discrimination |
5,172 |
Tribunal causes that have increased since the pandemic
|
Rank |
Tribunal Cause |
Increase Since Pandemic |
|
1 |
Part Time Workers Regulations |
767.08% |
|
2 |
Age Discrimination |
530.07% |
|
3 |
Others |
108.22% |
|
4 |
Transfer of an undertaking - failure to inform and consult |
84.16% |
|
5 |
Unfair dismissal |
10.71% |
|
6 |
Public Interest Disclosure |
10.65% |
|
7 |
Written pay statement |
10.46% |
|
8 |
Race discrimination |
5.24% |
|
9 |
Written statement of reasons for dismissal |
0.56% |
The research also revealed:
· The most common cause of employment tribunals over the past 10 years is working time directive, with over 450,000 complaints.
· Since 2020 thousands of workers have been made redundant. However, over 93% of cases for ‘redundancy - failure to inform’ were successful at tribunal.
· In 2020/21 there were over 117,000 employment tribunals which is an annual percentage increase of over 13% since 2010/11.
You can view the full research here.
I have included a link to a Dropbox folder with imagery here.
I wanted to share this research with you as I believe it will be of interest to your readers. If you have any questions at all then please do not hesitate to drop me an email and I’ll gladly assist.