Employment Law – Employees
Changes to the law - UNFAIR DISMISSAL
From the 6th April 2012, the period employees must have been working for an employer before they can claim unfair dismissal has risen from one to two years. However, the usual two year period does NOT apply for automatically unfair dismissal and discrimination.
This change follows the 'Resolving Workplace Disputes' consultation.
This consultation also proposed measures to:
- encourage the early resolution of disputes
- speed up the tribunal process
- tackle weak and vexatious (groundless / baseless) claims
Employment law can be very difficult to understand and confusing, and few people have a clear idea of all their rights at work. If you think your employer has treated you unfairly, it is important to get specialist legal advice from us at Simpkins and Co Solicitors as soon as possible.
We understand that you will be worried and will strive to answer all your questions to the best of our ability and knowledge.
Sometimes there are specific deadlines for making a claim and in some cases there are particular steps you must follow to sort problems out with your employer before you can take a complaint to an employment tribunal.
Generally, the longer you leave a problem, the more difficult it may be to solve.
Planning and consulting with Simpkins and Co Solicitors will minimise the potential of costly litigation.
We are specialist in Employment law and are members of the Employment Lawyers Association. We regularly advise Employees on all kinds of areas and can help you with:
- Breach of Contract
- Bullying in the workplace
- Compromise Agreements
- Constructive Dismissal
- Disciplinary procedure
- Discrimination
- Equality and Diversity
- Flexible working
- Grievances
- Health and Safety
- Holidays
- Maternity/Paternity rights
- Minimum wage
- Part time workers
- Redundancy
- Restrictive Covenants
- Sickness
- Sexual harassment
- Stress at work
- TUPE
- Unfair dismissal
- Victimisation
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