{"id":5389,"date":"2020-11-30T11:36:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T11:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=5389"},"modified":"2024-09-13T10:05:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T10:05:02","slug":"unfair-dismissal-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/unfair-dismissal-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfair dismissal compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While defending people against unfair dismissal, we often need to understand what compensation might be won in a tribunal. The Ministry of Justice publish figures about the activity of the tribunals<\/a> and one of the UK’s law firms summarise them in a blog article<\/a>, listing maximum, median and mean average awards.Here are my notes …<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The median average for unfair dismissal is \u00a36,243 (to Sep. 2019) although for most discrimination cases as a class, the awards are higher, in the case of age discrimination almost double, but with the exception of religious or belief discrimination which is a lot lower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where median is > than mean we have a low award skewed distribution, and the opposite is also true. It might be fun to go to the MoJ stats and build the complete frequency distribution.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Here are Morton Fraser’s figures as a table.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Fascinating the variances from the baseline by class, I wonder if the law or the courts are prejudiced?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An article, at Michael Mores, stating the Tariff<\/a> for compensation for 2022\/23, these are called vento bands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I returned to this in 2024, and found an article at Crosslands<\/a>, detailing the 2024 bands. They say, for claims presented on or after 6 April 2024, the Vento bands are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n