About Us

Online Services

Online services allows you to make a claim or respond to a claim to the Industrial Tribunals and/or The Fair Employment Tribunal for Northern Ireland. You must register with the site in order to use these services.
A claim form, ET1(NI), is also available on PDF for downloading - see Publications.
This page also provides information on the weekly hearing schedule of the Industrial Tribunals and The Fair Employment Tribunal and the main decisions of these tribunals which have been issued since January 2007.

Making a Claim

Before going on-line to make a claim you may find it helpful to consider the following information which is available on this website:

Before making a claim
Information required for a claim
Statutory dispute resolution procedures
Getting help with the claim
Representation
Receipt of the claim
Further correspondance
Withdrawal of a claim

Responding to a Claim

Before going on-line to respond to a claim in which you have been named as a respondent, you may find it helpful to consider the following information which is available on this website:

Notice of the claim
Responding to the claim
What if I cannot make the deadline for a response?
What will happen if I do not send in my response or if the tribunal does not accept it?
Taking no further part in proceedings
Representation

About Us

Administration The Office of the Industrial Tribunals and the Fair Employment Tribunal (OITFET) is staffed by 60 personnel responsible for the administration and organisation of the tribunals. The staff are provided by the Department for Employment and Learning (DEL) and the team is led by the Secretary of the Tribunals.