Regulator Profile

Employment Tribunal

HM Courts and Tribunals Service — Employment Tribunals

tribunal
3
Areas of regulation
5
Laws enforced
UK-wide

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Dispute Resolution Employment Equality

What Employment Tribunal does

Statutory tribunal enforcing individual employment-rights legislation across Great Britain. Hears complaints under the Employment Rights Act 1996 (unfair dismissal, written particulars, time off, parental leave, pay obligations, redundancy), the Equality Act 2010 (discrimination, harassment, victimisation in employment), the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, the Working Time Regulations 1998, the National Minimum Wage Act 1998, the Agency Workers Regulations 2010, and related employment statutes. Awards compensation, orders re-engagement or reinstatement, and can require employers to pay arrears. Administered by HMCTS but functionally independent. The Employment Appeal Tribunal is the first-instance appellate body.

Additional information

Added 2026-04-15 to close a vocabulary gap exposed by the C2b LLM-as-judge pass — ERA 1996, Equality Act (employment parts), Agency Workers Regs, and similar tribunal-enforced duties previously had no on-roster enforcer, leading to GLAA / Insolvency Service mis-assignments. Employment tribunals sit in Great Britain; Northern Ireland has the separate Industrial Tribunals and Fair Employment Tribunal.

Legal framework

Legislation that Employment Tribunal enforces.

Primary legislation

Secondary legislation