Proposals to radically revamp the employment tribunal system would cut lengthy wait times and increase access to justice across the UK if taken forward, according to an expert.
The Employment Lawyers Association has put forward proposals for a major revamp of how employment dispute resolution should work, following a two-year research project into the issues causing delays and bottlenecks in the current system.
Among the major changes to the process are proposals to reform the Acas code of practice and creating a new dispute resolution body, incentivising realistic approaches to cases from parties involved, and making the system more settlement based.
“The employment tribunal system is creaking at the seams, even before the surge in claims we expect to follow the implementation of the Employment Rights Act,” he warned.
“Access to justice is currently very dependent on your location; a complex claim issued in the north of England or in Scotland will likely be heard within 18 months while the same claim issued in the south of England may not be heard for five years.
“Employers are facing both a mounting number of claims and more difficult claimants, often with unrealistic expectations of how much their claim is worth, using AI to bring complex claims and generate huge volumes of correspondence.”
The proposals, published at the ELA’s conference earlier this month, come as the number of outstanding single cases in the UK increased to around 58,000 last year, with wildly...
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