Row erupts over Employment Tribunals

Posted By: James

Monday 15th December 2014

The Independent reports that a major political row is set to erupt after it was revealed that there has been a 70% fall in the number of people suing through employment tribunals since the Government began charging for them. Lawyers have reported that in some areas such as sex discrimination, it is down 85%. The MoJ had pledged to review the system a year after its introduction last July. It then said it would take place in the autumn, but still nothing has happened. According to the Independent, employment minister Jo Swinson has written to the courts and legal aid minister Shailesh Vara to demand an urgent review: "There is a clear, necessary and now increasingly urgent need for this review to take place," she wrote. "As a Government, we committed at the time of their introduction to review the impact of fees and, 18 months on, this is now long overdue.”

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