REDUNDANCY, DISCIPLINARY OR GRIEVANCE
What can possibly go wrong?
Suzanne and Ian Millar set up Suzian as a platform to share, with employers, the story of their Employment Tribunal experience Mrs S Millar v The Oak Trust (Ian represented Suzanne at the Tribunal). Use your search engine to get an overview the case! The concept is to take what was a negative and extremely stressful ordeal (albeit with a successful outcome - value to Mrs Millar circa £180,000) and "flip" the experience to raise awareness to employers of the severe financial and reputational damage of getting the process wrong providing interactive, thought provoking and enlightening training to leaders in a positive way of a real life case.
Employment Tribunal Trends
Employment Tribunals are increasing year on year. Claims for the year April 2023 to March 2024 increased 13% from 86,000 to 97,000. This trend is predicted to continue especially considering the effects of the Employments Rights Bill.
Tribunal Awards April 2023 - March 2024
From April 2025, Employment Tribunal unfair dismissal compensatory awards are generally capped at £118,223 or the equivalent of one years’ gross pay (whichever is the lower) with the addition of a basic award upto a maximum of £21,750 (the basic award is calculated similar to the statutory redundancy calculation).
There are significant exceptions to this cap (such as Whistleblowing or Health & Safety related dismissals) where there is no statutory limit to the amount of awards.
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If Discrimination (ie: treating someone less favorably than someone else) is involved of one or more Protected Characteristic, there is no statutory cap to Tribunal Awards.​