Election results 2024: What changes can employers expect?

Extending employment tribunal time limits

Labour’s headline change is its proposal to give employees longer to issue employment tribunal claims.

Currently most claims must be lodged within a three-month window (although the mandatory ACAS early conciliation process can extend this to up to five and a half months).

Labour will give employees six months to lodge claims (plus presumably any extension via ACAS), which could increase the number of claims employers face, and might impact hiring practices (such as possibly having to wait longer before recruiting into a similar role where an employee has been dismissed on redundancy grounds).