Employment tribunal fee “would be fair and reasonable”
Employment law specialist Bibby Consulting & Support has backed calls for employees taking a company to tribunal to pay a fee which would be refunded if the claimant won the case. The previous government looked into the idea nearly 10 years ago and the current coalition is now considering introducing a fee of anywhere between £30 and £500 after figures showed a 56 per cent rise in claims in the last 12 months. Although most of the 236,100 claims were group claims by trade unions or no-win, no-fee lawyers, cases brought by individual employees have gone up by 14 per cent. Tribunal costs can