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What it costs. You do not have to pay a fee to make a claim to an employment tribunal. You may have to pay other costs, for example: witness expenses.

If you want to make a claim to an employment tribunal, you must tell Acas first. You'll be offered the option of early conciliation. This free service can help you and your employer resolve the issue before you need to make a claim. Making a claim to a tribunal can be time consuming and difficult for everyone involved.

We often find that in order to force the parties to reach settlement issuing a claim in the Employment Tribunal is a good move. However, around 95% of cases settle before the full hearing at an Employment Tribunal.

A: Ideally the Employment Tribunal process should take 6 – 12 months from start to finish.

Use the ET1 claim form to make a claim to an employment tribunal if you think you've been treated unfairly by your employer, potential employer or trade union.

The listing of the final hearing will be subject to the workload of the Tribunal, the number and complexity of issues to be determined and the availability of witnesses but you could reasonably expect it to take six months to a year to get a hearing date.

You will be informed of the outcome of your case in writing after about three or four weeks. The judge may say in the hearing when you can expect to receive the decision. If you change lawyers, or cease to have a lawyer after the hearing but before you are notified of the decision, make sure you notify the Tribunal.

However, since fees were abolished, the average waiting time has increased year on year, and, when the last data was analysed in December 2021, it has reached 49 weeks. It means that the average waiting time to a first hearing now stands at nearly a year and we must remember this is only to the first hearing.