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Tribunal Fees and Workplace Discrimination

Graham Watson

4th November 2016

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Interesting labour market story hereInteresting labour market story here, with the TUC arguing that the decision to charge people for bringing claims of unfair treatment to Employment Tribunals has seen a significant reduction in the number of cases.

In part, that's what the charges were intended to do - reduce the number of flawed claims but "the TUC found unfair dismissal claims have fallen by 73% since 2012-13, the year before the introduction of the fees. Discrimination cases on grounds of sex have dropped by 71%, race by 58% and disability by 54%". It's unlikely that workplace behaviour has changed to that extent.

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Graham Watson

Graham Watson has taught Economics for over twenty years. He contributes to Tutor2U, reads voraciously and is interested in all aspects of Teaching and Learning.

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