Employment tribunals

Summary

Help if you have been treated poorly at work and are thinking about standing up for yourself by taking the issue to an employment tribunal. Get the knowledge, confidence and skills you need to put your case well. Getting free one-to-one advice about employment problems is hard. All advice services are extremely busy. We are here to help everyone who cannot get in at an advice service and cannot afford to pay for legal help. We give you the knowledge, confidence, and skills you need to deal with the issue yourself, or with the help of friends or family. If you need more help than you can get from our advice guides and self-help tools, we explain how to try to find advice.

Key information

• Help if you have been treated poorly at work and are thinking about standing up for yourself by taking the issue to an employment tribunal. Get the knowledge, confidence and skills you need to put your case well.
• Information Can I go to an employment tribunal Understand what issues the tribunal can deal with and if you are within the time limit.  Information Is it worth going to an employment tribunal Assess if taking a case is really going to be worth it before you start  Information Negotiate an out of court settlement to avoid an employment tribunal Either you or your employer can approach each other to see if you can make an agreement before you start a case or at any point before the hearing. Understand how to do that and what should be written in the agreement. 
• Information Before you can start a case at an employment tribunal Get to grips with the things you have to do before you can start a claim and who you want to take the case against.  Information How to start a case at an employment tribunal Advice on what you need to do, think about, and say in each step of the form to start your case off on the right foot. It is hard to change details after you have started so it is important to get it right.  Information How to value a claim for an employment tribunal Work out what amount of money you believe you are owed or are asking to win in compensation and how to lay it out. Create what lawyers call a ’schedule of loss’. 
• Information After you start your employment tribunal claim Discover the process that happens next and what you need to do now you have submitted your claim to the employment tribunal.  Employment tribunals Evidence and witness statements for your employment tribunal Step-by-step help to gather evidence to win your case, write your witness statement, and what you need to do with it before your employment tribunal hearing.  Information Represent yourself at employment tribunal Simple tips to prepare, and what to do on the day, and what to expect at the hearing. 
• Information How to get free legal advice about your employment problem It is not easy to find free advice to help you deal with a problem at work. Find out where to try and which organisations have helplines that may be able to advise you. 
• Getting free one-to-one advice about employment problems is hard. All advice services are extremely busy. We are here to help everyone who cannot get in at an advice service and cannot afford to pay for legal help.
• We give you the knowledge, confidence, and skills you need to deal with the issue yourself, or with the help of friends or family. If you need more help than you can get from our advice guides and self-help tools, we explain how to try to find advice.

Practical guidance

• Source: Employment tribunals

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