Employment Tribunal: Standards
(asked on 4th March 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) average waiting time and (b) longest wait between the Employment Tribunal receiving an employment tribunal application and the date of the first hearing has been in each of the last five years.
The average and the longest waiting times between the Employment Tribunal receiving an employment tribunal application and the date of the first hearing, in each of the last five years can be found in the table below.
Waiting time (in weeks) from receipt to first hearing | |||||
April 14 - March 15 | April 15 - March 16 | April 16 - March 17 | April 17 - March 18 | April 18 – Sept 18 | |
Time (weeks) | Time (weeks) | Time (weeks) | Time (weeks) | Time (weeks) | |
All Claims (Median) 1,2 | 26 | 23 | 24 | 24 | 26 |
Oldest Claim | 748 | 530 | 704 | 682 | 561 |
1 Single claims are made by a sole employee/worker, relating to alleged breaches of employment rights.
2 Multiple claims are where two or more people bring proceedings arising out of the same facts, usually against a common employer. In this instance the lead multiple claim would be listed for hearing. This table provides the average listing time for both single and lead multiple claim cases.
Median – This shows the waiting time for the claim in the middle of the distribution: half of all claims waited for less time and half waited longer.
A claim may contain one or more jurisdictional complaint (grounds for the claim). Depending upon the complexity of the jurisdiction this may importantly influence the listing of such claims.
All data was taken from the Employment Tribunals Central database and as such is management information that is, provisional and subject to change.
Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system, and is the best data that is available at the time of publication.
95% of multiple claims are stayed waiting decisions from a lead claim, as these are usually complex claims involving jurisdictions such as equal pay, holiday pay and pensions and it can take some time for these claims to be dealt with. This explains why the oldest claims in the table exceed ten years in length as they spend the majority of this period as a stayed claim.
All data was taken from the Employment Tribunals Central database and as such is management information that is provisional and subject to change. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system, and are the best data available.