Employment tribunals: can you help us with a major new project?

With growing delays, a lack of legal aid preventing people from bringing claims and many not getting the money they are owed after they win their case, employment tribunals are in crisis.

That’s why, at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, we have launched an investigation into the barriers workers face when trying to enforce their rights through the employment tribunal. But we need your help.

If you have made a claim at an employment tribunal or helped someone through this process, we want to hear from you.

You can email us at [email protected] or message on WhatsApp or Signal on +447869158504. You can also sign up to receive email updates on this project.

We are particularly interested in unpaid awards and settlements, unreasonable non-disclosure agreements, what it was like to face your employer without representation, lengthy delays, or any other issue which might have prevented you from getting justice.

As well as workers, we want to hear from (current and former) frontline support workers, lawyers, peer support group members and coordinators, union workers, (current and former) tribunal judges or staff, and anyone else involved in employment tribunals who has knowledge on these issues.

You can find more details on the project here.