Employment Tribunals

 

I note you seek access to the following information:

 

1) How many employment tribunals were lodged by past or present staff against the force in the following calendar years: 2023, 2022, 2021. - For example, in 2023, 15 claims were lodged 

 

2) Please provide detail on the type of claims lodged in the following calendar years: 2023, 2022, 2021. - For example, in 2023, 15 employment tribunals were lodged, 5 related to sex discrimination, 10 related to disability discrimination. 

 

3) Please provide detail on the amount paid out to successful claimants in the following calendar years: 2023, 2022, 2021. - For example, in 2023, 15 claims were lodged, 5 related to sex discrimination. One sex discrimination resulted in compensation being awarded amounting to £5,000 

 

Please note: if for data protection reasons you are unable to provide the figures broken down by year, please collate the figures over the three year period. I.e. between 2020 and 2023, 15 employment tribunal claims were lodged by past and present staff. 5 related to sex discrimination, 10 related to disability discrimination. In four cases relating to sex discrimination total of £11,000 was awarded in favour of complaints If you believe the contents of any such files are exempt from disclosure, please provide summaries of any such exempt files.  

I have today decided to disclose the located information to you in full. 

 

Please find below information pursuant to your request above.

 

 

New claims lodged by serving and former police officers and police staff.  

New ET Claims	Total
2021	84
2022	69
2023	114

 

2 - Please provide detail on the type of claims lodged in the following calendar years: 2023, 2022, 2021. - For example, in 2023, 15 employment tribunals were lodged, 5 related to sex discrimination, 10 related to disability discrimination. 

CLAIM TYPES	TOTAL
	2021	2022	2023
Discrimination on the grounds of Age	6	8	13
Discrimination on the grounds of Disability	42	38	65
Discrimination on the grounds of Marriage / Civil Partnership	2	0	0
Discrimination on the grounds of Pregnancy / Maternity	7	5	3
Discrimination on the grounds of Race	27	20	42
Discrimination on the grounds of Religion / Belief	7	7	15
Discrimination on the grounds of Sex	21	22	28
Discrimination on the grounds of Sexual Orientation	3	2	6
Discrimination on the grounds of Gender Reassignment	0	0	3
Unfair Dismissal	11	9	7
Constructive Dismissal	3	3	11
Employment Rights Act	7	1	0
Flexible Working Regulations	0	0	0
Public Interest Disclosure Act	8	9	11
Part Time Working Regulations	0	0	0
Working Time Regulations	1	0	0
Other	8	0	1

 

Please note, a claimant may cite a number of claim types within a single Employment Tribunal claim, hence the difference in the number of new claims received and the number of claim types.

 

 

Please note: if for data protection reasons you are unable to provide the figures broken down by year, please collate the figures over the three year period. I.e. between 2020 and 2023, 15 employment tribunal claims were lodged by past and present staff. 5 related to sex discrimination, 10 related to disability discrimination. In four cases relating to sex discrimination total of £11,000 was awarded in favour of complaints If you believe the contents of any such files are exempt from disclosure, please provide summaries of any such exempt files.

	Award in favour of the claimant following a Final Hearing	Number of claims	Claim Types
2021	£363,058.00	4	SD/DIS/DIS/AGE/DIS/SD
2022	Awaiting remedy	4	SD/DIS/DIS/DIS
2023	£40,820.66 in respect of 3 claims, 2 claims awaiting remedy	5	RD/DIS/DIS/RD/RD/DIS/PID
Key	Discrimination on the grounds of SD - Sex, DIS – Disability, AGE – Age, RD - Race, PID – Public Interest Disclosure Act

 

Please note, the number of claims concluded within a financial year do not correlate with the number of new claims lodged within the same period.  Claims may take a number of months or years to conclude, and at that point will be recorded within that corresponding financial year.