Employment law attorney
Employment Tribunal litigation may be increasing, partly due to the recession causing employers to cut staff numbers with redundancies, say employment law solicitors' groups and human resources groups.

Employment law attorney
Are you aware for example, that a year ago there were over 150,000 claims lodged with all the Employment Tribunal? The largest proportion, 35%, was for unfair dismissal or claims relating to equal pay. Interestingly, the amount of claims relating to redundancy was up 43% on the previous years to almost 11,000. This is almost certainly as a result of additional pressure on employers brought on by the current recession, say employment law solicitors.

33% of last year's claims failed to get to no more court proceedings in the Employment Tribunal, often being withdrawn once the employee signed a compromise agreement, the industry settlement from court that employment law solicitors often encourage to save costs and time. Another 32% were settled with no need to go to court through ACAS. Those cases which received an entire hearing were only successful 40% of times, underlining the complexness of employment cases and for that reason, the necessity of hiring well qualified and experienced employment solicitors.

Employment law solicitors' usual advice for workers with a grievance that they can are thinking about taking towards the Employment Tribunal would be to seek legal advice as soon as possible since there are limitations on filing claims: usually Three months in the last act that you will be complaining about, or from the effective date of termination in the event of dismissal.