1. Employment Tribunal Solicitors Can Be of Use to
Both Employers and Employees
Industries that are looking to survive a recession, are forced to look at the alternative
of reducing staff and workers. Quite often such layoffs are contested by the sacked
employees and can lead to such matters coming up before an employment tribunal.
While a lot of cases do claim unfair dismissal, a fair amount of them relate to
compensation. Employment tribunals also are concerned with cases where workers
claim discrimination in service conditions or unequal pay.
Employment tribunal solicitors are quite often taken into confidence before any
redundancies are made, so that the firm in question can ensure that action is taken
within the law and does not involve anything that can fall foul of it. Even so, in spite
of the best efforts, disgruntled and affected employees, do make cases that come up
before tribunals. This is a time when the solicitors employed by the firm can play a
part and negotiate with the employees to arrive at some sort of settlement. This helps
to save time and the costs of any proceedings for both the firm and the employee. It
is said that a majority of cases that are registered do go through such negotiations
successfully.
Such solicitors can also represent the employees. When such an approach is made
to them by the persons affected, they are given advice on the viability of the claim
and the timing of registering such claims with a tribunal. Cases that mainly come up in
areas that do need the help of solicitors are those that involve unfair dismissal, rights of
employees, safety and health matters, discrimination, unfair redundancy and also some
disciplinary proceedings. Employment law is a very vast area and does go through
frequent changes, which good employment tribunal solicitors will always keep abreast
of. The field itself is fairly complex and understanding it is best left to the experts in the
field.