Property News · August 18, 2014

Priced out of court: why workers can't fight employment tribunals


Last year, the government introduced fees of up to £1,200 to end frivolous claims. But are people with legitimate complaints now unable to get justice? We listened in to cases to find out• Women’s blog: did becoming pregnant harm your career?In Court 9 at the East London employment tribunal, a judge begins hearing a case to determine whether a senior member of teaching staff at Epping Forest College was the victim of age discrimination when she was made redundant last year. She was 61 when she lost her job.”She will say that her job was rebranded and given to a 27-year-old,” her lawyer tells the court. Everyone in the team she led was also made redundant; all of them were over 50, he says. “She was dismissed, as was her team, in order to make way for younger and cheaper people.” He tells the judge that a third of the 31 redundancies made by the college were people over 60. A lawyer for the college gets up to argue that age had nothing to do with the decision. “Restructuring was carried out in the interest of economy and efficiency.” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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