National user group
Membership of the national user group is drawn from those organisations which speak for a particular constituency, or which otherwise have a wide reach among those who use the Employment Tribunals. Each such organisation nominates one or more representatives to attend. The national user group meets two or three times a year. Meetings are chaired by the President.
Members include the Law Society of England and Wales, the Law Society of Scotland, the Employment Lawyers’ Association, the Employment Law Bar Association, the Discrimination Law Association, the Free Representation Unit, Advocate (formerly the Bar Pro Bono Unit), LawWorks (the Solicitors Pro Bono Group), Citizens Advice, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the Law Centres Network, Protect (formerly Public Concern at Work), LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters/Practical Law, the Trades Union Congress, the Confederation of British Industry, the Equality Advisory & Support Service, and the Insolvency Service. The group’s meetings are also attended by ACAS and representatives of the Ministry of Justice, the Department for Business and Trade, and HM Courts and Tribunals Service, each of which is invited, through their nominated representative, to present an oral report.
Individual users may submit items for consideration at one of the group’s meetings by sending an email to etpresidentsupportoffice@judiciary.uk. Whether they will be the subject of discussion will depend upon the topic and the available time. Where those concerns relate to matters of government policy (such as the powers of Employment Tribunals and the matters upon which they adjudicate), they will be forwarded to the government department with “ownership” of employment law policy, which is the Department for Business and Trade.
The national user group is a forum for the discussion of matters of policy (whether judicial, governmental or administrative), not individuals claims or responses, and not cases where users are dissatisfied with the outcome.
Each individual region of the Employment Tribunals is led, for judicial purposes, by a Regional Employment Judge. Regional Employment Judges may also attend the national user group meetings to provide regional reports. Additionally, they may arrange separate regional user group meetings. Details are available from etpresidentsupportoffice@judiciary.uk
Links to minutes of each meeting of the national user group held since 2017 are below. For copies of minutes of previous meetings, please email etpresidentsupportoffice@judiciary.uk.
- 15 April 2024
- Letter from President to National User Group 8 November 2023
- Letter from President to National User Group 6 November 2023
- 6 November 2023
- Letter from President to National User Group 15 September 2023
- Letter from President to National User Group 8 September 2023
- Letter from President to National User Group 7 July 2023
- 16 June 2023
- 3 April 2023
- 22 September 2022
- 27 April 2022
- 17 January 2022 and Appendix A Acas Notifications Project
- 5 May 2021
- 13 September 2021
- Letter from President to National User Group 6 January 2021
- 10 December 2020
- 30 June 2020
- 22 April 2020
- 12 November 2019
- 26 September 2019
- 19 June 2019
- 27 February 2019
- 26 September 2018
- 22 May 2018
- 17 January 2018
- 16 October 2017
- 19 June 2017
- 10 February 2017