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THE LEGAL NIGHTMARE
The jurisdiction of Employment Tribunals spans unfair
dismissal, sex, disability and race discrimination, equal pay, redundancy
consultation, written statements, the working-time directive, part-time workers
regulations plus several others.
There
is a limit of £72300 on compensation for unfair dismissal, but there is no
limit where the employee is dismissed unfairly or selected for redundancy for
reasons connected with health and safety matters or public interest disclosure
('whistleblowing').
Average compensation shown in the 2011 Employment Tribunals
Service annual report was £8,924 for unfair dismissal cases, £30,289 for age
discrimination, £12,108 for race discrimination cases, £13911 for sex
discrimination cases and £14137 for disability discrimination cases.
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