The Tribunals Service annual report for 2008/09 shows that the employment tribunals received 150,900 cases and disposed of 99,800 from April 2008 to March 2009. This is compared to 189,300 cases received and 86,200 disposed of the previous year. However, the Tribunals Service points out that the number and proportion of single claims has risen in comparison to last year, leading to additional workload for the tribunals. (Multiple claims such as the ones received over recent years in relation to equal pay in the public sector are often dealt with in batches or a test case is heard.)
The Tribunals Office press release states that the number of single employment tribunal claims received in the last quarter of 2008/09 was up by 28% when compared with the same period in the previous year. Single employment tribunal claims in the second half of the year were also 15% higher than in the first six months of the year. This would appear to reflect the growing impact of the economic recession.
The full employment tribunal statistics will be published later this year. However, back in March, the Tribunals Service provided XpertHR with provisional figures on employment tribunal claims over the period from April 2008 to February 2009. These give a good indication of what we can expect from the final figures, and show that unfair dismissal claims, redundancy pay claims and failure to inform and consult over redundancy claims are all up on the figures for the period from April 2007 to the end of March 2008.
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