In 2022, prosecutions were brought against 89 employers, with 24 convicted, 38 receiving the benefit of the Probation Act, and seven making donations to charity.
Last year, the employment and equality tribunal also recorded a 30 per cent increase in the number of adjudication hearings to 4,253 – cases having been put on hiatus for over three months in 2021 while emergency legislation was drafted in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Zalewski case, which saw wholesale reform in how complaints before the commission are heard.
The tribunal launched a pilot scheme last September offering late-notice mediation as an option to parties in dispute after placing them on notice of a formal hearing – with around a quarter of parties looking for late mediation resolving the matter ahead of the case opening.Two other employers were prosecuted and fined for failing to comply with an order to pay a WRC adjudication award.
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