Member

Furthermore, it would be disproportionate to delay measures increasing time limits to bring a claim to the employment tribunal, given that this is implementing the Government’s commitment in Labour’s Plan to Make Work Pay to action a long-standing Law Commission recommendation to extend all employment tribunal time limits to six months in order to simplify the system. The Law Commission consulted extensively on extending the time limits to six months, and the feedback from the consultation and wider experience show that three months is no longer a realistic amount of time for many people to prepare and fund a robust claim. While I have heard the concerns that increasing time limits may increase the number of claims, the counterargument is that it will allow more time for parties to access advice and increase the chances of resolving matters without the need for costly and stressful litigation.