Employment Tribunal Articles
Practical guides to employment tribunal claims, ET1 and ET3 forms, ACAS early conciliation, time limits, unfair dismissal, discrimination, and workplace dispute bundles.
Employment Tribunal Bundle: A Comprehensive Guide to Preparing Your Hearing Documents (2025/26)
Comprehensive guide to employment tribunal bundles. What documents to include, who prepares the bundle, filing deadlines, page limits, format requirements, and common mistakes that can cost you at the hearing.
ET1 Claim Form: Section-by-Section Guide to Filing Your Employment Tribunal Claim
Complete guide to the ET1 claim form. Section-by-section instructions for filing an employment tribunal claim, including ACAS early conciliation, time limits, and common mistakes to avoid.
ET1A Form: How to Add Multiple Claimants to an Employment Tribunal Claim
Guide to the ET1A additional claimant form for multiple-claimant employment tribunal proceedings. Covers collective redundancy, TUPE, equal pay, and group discrimination claims.
ET3 Response Form: A Respondent's Guide to Defending an Employment Tribunal Claim
Section-by-section guide to completing the ET3 response form. How to defend an employment tribunal claim, grounds of resistance, employer's contract claims, and the 28-day deadline.
T439 Form: Self-Employed Loss of Earnings Declaration for Employment Tribunal
Guide to completing the HMCTS T439 form for self-employed loss of earnings at employment tribunal hearings. Note: this scheme only applies to claims filed before 6 April 2012.
TSF4 Form: How to Claim Travel and Expenses for Employment Tribunal Attendance
Guide to completing the TSF4 expenses claim form for travel, overnight accommodation, and loss of earnings at employment tribunal hearings. Note: scheme only covers claims filed before 6 April 2012.
ACAS Early Conciliation: A Practitioner's Guide to Time Limits and Strategy
Comprehensive guide to ACAS early conciliation. Mandatory notification requirements, time limit extensions under s.207B, Day A and Day B calculations, exemptions, and strategic considerations.
Employment Tribunal Time Limits: Quick Reference Guide by Claim Type
Quick reference guide to employment tribunal time limits by claim type. Covers unfair dismissal, discrimination, whistleblowing, wages, redundancy, TUPE, equal pay, and ACAS extension calculations.
How to Apply for a Postponement of Your Employment Tribunal Hearing
Complete guide to postponing an employment tribunal hearing. Covers the Presidential Guidance requirements, what your application must include, timing, medical evidence, and common mistakes that lead to refusal.
What Evidence Do I Need for an Unfair Dismissal Claim? A Document-by-Document Guide
Document-by-document guide to the evidence needed for an unfair dismissal claim at the Employment Tribunal. Contract, dismissal letter, disciplinary papers, payslips, Schedule of Loss — what to include and why.
How to Prove Discrimination at an Employment Tribunal: The Evidence That Wins
How to evidence a discrimination claim under the Equality Act 2010 — shifting burden of proof, comparators, contemporaneous records, the Vento bands, and what NOT to include in your bundle.
Unpaid Wages: What Documents Do You Need for an Employment Tribunal?
Unpaid wages and unlawful deduction claims under Part II ERA 1996 — the four document categories, time limits, holiday pay complications, breach of contract jurisdiction, and how to evidence the shortfall.
How to Create a List of Documents for the Employment Tribunal: The Disclosure Process
Disclosure in the Employment Tribunal under Rule 33 of the 2024 Procedure Rules. What's relevant, how to build the list, specific disclosure applications, privileged documents, and the consequences of failing to disclose.
The Preliminary Hearing at the Employment Tribunal: What You Need to Prepare
How to prepare for a case management preliminary hearing — the three types of PH, the agenda, the list of issues, the mini-bundle, and what the Judge will ask you on the day.
How to Write an Employment Tribunal Witness Statement (and Link It to Your Bundle)
Practical guide to writing an employment tribunal witness statement that cross-references the bundle. Format, structure, paragraph numbering, statement of truth, exchange, and the cardinal rule: build the bundle first.
5 Fatal Mistakes Litigants in Person Make with Employment Tribunal Bundles
The five mistakes that cost litigants in person the most at the Employment Tribunal — non-OCR bundles, Without Prejudice leakage, broken pagination, witness statements without page refs, and treating bundle prep as the employer's job.
Missed the Employment Tribunal Bundle Deadline? Here's What to Do Next
What to do if you've missed the tribunal bundle filing deadline — emailing the tribunal, the three outcomes the tribunal can choose, costs orders under Part 13 of the 2024 Rules, unless orders, and the postponement application route.