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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 in 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

Legislation (changes)

This page will be used to provide information about recent legislation changes which affect the Industrial Tribunal and Fair Employment procedures.

The Employment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 comes into operation on 3rd April 2011. The Act makes provision about the procedures for the resolution of employment disputes and the procedures of industrial tribunals and the Fair Employment Tribunal.
Employment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011

The statutory regulations governing the procedures of these tribunals are:

The Industrial Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Amendment: SR 2005 No. 376, commenced 31 August 2005

Amendment No. 2 SR 2005 No. 578, commenced 31 December 2005

The Fair Employment Tribunal (Rules of Procedure) Regulations 2005

Correction: SR 2005 No. 151
Amendment: SR 2005 No. 579, commenced 31 December 2005.

From 3 April 2005 the Employment (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (Dispute Resolution) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 applies, giving new rights and responsibilities to both employers and employees; these set out:

Statutory minimum dismissal and disciplinary procedures (for use when an employer is unhappy with an employee’s performance) and

Statutory minimum grievance procedures (for use when an employee is unhappy with something their employer has done which may be in breach of the law).

For more information and guidance on the statutory dispute resolution procedures, visit www.delni.gov.uk/resolvingdisputes or contact the Labour Relations Agency (see useful information)

The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 came into operation on 1 October 2006.
The Regulations prohibit both direct and indirect discrimination on the grounds of an individual's age. The concepts of direct and indirect discrimination, harassment, and victimisation are the same as apply under existing NI discrimination law.