Usefully Employed

One of my favourite ever dirty lawyer tricks involved the three month tribunal deadline for unfair dismissal. Employees are expected to appeal their dismissal, and if they don’t they can expect their compensation to be reduced at the tribunal. In recognition that this can take some time, if the appeal process is still ongoing at [...]

The rule of thumb is that an employee gets three months to bring a tribunal claim. This can be extended in a convoluted variety of ways, but generally you’re mad not to at least bung in a form during this period. Get sacked on the 2nd December, you’ve got until midnight on the 1st March [...]