Figures for the period April 2007 to March 2008 released by the Tribunals Service today show that the number of equal pay tribunal claims jumped to 62,706, up from 44,013 for 2006/07 - and in comparison to just 4,412 for 2003/04.
A increase from 21,127 to 55,712 working time cases is apparently due in part to “approximately 10,000 airline workers’ cases relating to annual leave entitlements which are resubmitted every few months to ensure that when the case is eventually heard it takes account of all leave entitlement up to that point”.
The number of unfair dismissal claims fell from 44,491 in 2006/07 to 40,941 in 2007/08, and the number of redundancy pay claims from 7,692 to 7,313. I suspect that when the Tribunals Service releases its 2008/09 figures later this year, they’ll show a different pattern in this respect.
The number of age discrimination claims in 2007/08 tripled to 2,949. This is only the second year for which the age figures are available as the age discrimination legislation came into force in October 2006.
The new figures are available on the Employment Tribunals Service website.
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