Employment tribunals delayed by huge backlog‎

Jennifer Smith (Employment Solicitor)

As featured in Crain’s Manchester Business.

Recent reports have confirmed that the Employment Tribunals Service in the North West is currently suffering such a backlog of cases that people are now being told that it will be at least 12 months before their case is heard.

There has indeed been a sharp rise in claims over recent years in various areas of employment law, but especially regarding class actions, with the most prominent escalation being in equal pay disputes, and the tribunal system is straining under the massive rise in equal pay claims. Read more »