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Employment Tribunals
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Employment tribunals are legal processes that take place when an employee and an employer are in dispute. So, for example, if an employee believes that they have been a victim of unfair or constructive dismissal and make a case against the company that employed them then the case may well go to tribunal to be assessed and ruled on.
Tribunals are led by independent judicial bodies. They resemble a court in many ways in that a case will be heard and reviewed in a formal legal environment but they are not as formal as a court case and will have a specialist leaning towards employment rights and disputes. The tribunals will usually be chaired/led by a qualified legal professional and other individuals who will make up the Tribunal Board.
Most Employment tribunals will be initiated by the employee who will make a claim against their employer/former employer. Both sides can use representation and will give evidence during the hearing. As with any legal process the evidence given here must be truthful otherwise you could be committing perjury.
Once the Tribunal Board has heard all evidence it will usually come to a decision as to who is in the right and who is in the wrong. It will then lay down any payments/restitution that may need to be made. In most cases this will not involve the ‘losing’ side paying the expenses of the other party as each party tends to pay their own expenses in this kind of case.
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