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Scrap unfair employment tribunal fees

Submitted on Thursday 2nd October 2014

Published on Friday 3rd October 2014

Current status: Closed

Closed: Monday 30th March 2015

Signatures: 138

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Citizens ~ Law

Petition Action

Scrap unfair employment tribunal fees

Additional Information

In July 2013 the government introduced fees for taking an employer to an employment tribunal. Their reasoning behind this was that it would stop people making bogus claims.
In reality, all introducing these fees has done is made it financially impossible for the majority of people who have been treated unfairly to take action against their employer.

The current fees for taking an employer to an employment tribunal are between £390 and £1200

According to research carried out by Citizens Advice, now only 14% of valid claims are being taken forward to a tribunal and from October 2013 to March 2014 there was a 73% drop in claims on the same period the previous year.

Action: Stop making unfairly treated employees pay fees to take action against employers that are breaking the law.


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