This report presents annual statistical information on Employment Tribunals (ET) and Employment Appeal Tribunals (EAT) in Great Britain.

Source agency: Justice

Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Employment Tribunal and EAT Statistics

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The bulletin presents the latest statistics on type and volume of tribunal cases received, disposed of and outstanding and the number of Gender Recognition Certificates applied for and granted.

The bulletin focuses on information on receipts (i.e. cases received by HMCTS), the outcome of cases by category (e.g. cases disposed of at hearing) and the caseload outstanding (snapshot of live cases at a specific point in time) for the three largest tribunals: Employment, Immigration and Asylum, and Social Security and Child Support. Additional data are available on timeliness, jurisdiction, Employment Tribunal fees, smaller tribunals, Employment Appeal Tribunal and regional receipts for the Employment Tribunal (management information).

Annual data are published as follows: * Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal annual statistics are published in September; these include information on representation of claimants, compensation and costs awarded in the Employment Tribunal for the financial year. * Data from the Special Educational Needs and Disability tribunals covering the academic year are published in December. Further breakdowns include information on the number of appeals registered by type and nature of special education need, and outcomes. * The number of adjournments and postponements by jurisdiction are published annually in June, along with the number of judicial salaried and fee-paid sittings by jurisdiction.

In addition to monitoring tribunal workloads and timeliness, they are used to assist in the development, monitoring and evaluation of tribunal related policy in collaboration with other Government departments, e.g. DWP, BEIS and Home Office.

In 2022, there were 482,789 outstanding employment tribunals in England and Wales, compared with 506,896 in the previous year.

In 2022/23,14,632 equal pay tribunals took place in Great Britain, compared with 24,689 in 2019/20, and 8,509 in 2020/21. Employers in the UK are obliged to pay men and women equal pay for equal work, with employees entitled to make an equal-pay claim when this is not the case. If claims are not resolved internally, or mediated by a conciliation process, the claims are then assessed by an employment tribunal.

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The Survey of Employment Tribunal Applications (SETA) series aims to provide information on the characteristics of the parties in, and the key features of, employment tribunal cases.
The headline aims of the 2018 study were to:

• get information on the characteristics of employment tribunal claimants and employers;
• assess the costs of going to tribunals for claimants and employers; and
• monitor the performance of the employment tribunal claim process.

The first SETA was undertaken in 1987, with subsequent surveys undertaken in 1992, 1998, 2003, 2008 and 2013. The survey methodology used in 2018 was very similar to that used in 2013.

A total of 2,663 interviews were carried out; 1,373 interviews with claimants and 1,290 with employers. The average interview length in the claimant survey was 30 minutes and in the employer survey 26 minutes.

Further information may be found on the gov.uk Survey of Employment Tribunal Applications 2018 webpage.

This is the seventh survey in a series dating back to 1987. The 1998, 2003, 2008 and 2013 surveys (SNs 4894, 6714, 5022 and 7727 respectively) are available at the UK Data Service.

• process before a claim;
• effects of conciliation;
• impact of Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) including early conciliation (from the perspective of the sub-set those who then continued their cases into employment tribunals);
• costs and benefits of tribunals - including employment tribunal fees;
• outcomes including settlements;
• and characteristics of involved parties.

This report presents comprehensive statistics on the judicial selection process and recommendations for Employment Tribunal Members. This exercise ran from August 2009 to January 2010.

Most judicial recruitment exercises are run by the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC). However, Employment Tribunal Members are not listed in schedule 14 of the Constitutional Reform Act 2006, and this exercise was therefore able to be run by the Tribunals.

Source agency: Justice

Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Statistics of the Employment Tribunals selection and recommendations for appointment exercise, showing diversity

The Survey of Employment Tribunal Applications, 2008 (SETA2008) is the fifth in the series. The first SETA was undertaken in 1987, with subsequent surveys undertaken in 1992, 1998 and 2003. The series aims to provide information on the characteristics of the parties in, and key features of, Employment Tribunal cases.

Additional aims of the SETA 2008 were:

• to update the findings from the Survey of Employment Tribunal Applications, 2003 (held at the UK Data Archive under SN 5022)
• providing an assessment of the impact of the 2004 Dispute Resolution Regulations
• assessing the parties’ knowledge and evaluation of the role of Acas and its involvement; focussing on the role of Acas’s conciliators
• providing a benchmark to measure the impact of any changes in legislation and regulations arising from the Government’s response to the Gibbons Review
• assessing the parties’ awareness of and attitudes towards alternative dispute resolution and mediation
• involvement of Employment Tribunals and parties’ expectations of and satisfaction with the Employment Tribunal system

2008 is the latest in a series dating back to 1987

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