Employment tribunals are damaging to a company's reputation, time-consuming and costly. According to the latest report from the Employment Tribunals Service, a total of about 86,000 claims were registered in 2004/5. The majority of these were for unfair dismissal, with discrimination claims accounting for nearly 20,000. The highest compensation awarded for unfair dismissal last year was pound;75,250 with one sex discrimination case receiving pound;179,026.
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