Employment tribunals (03): fees and remissions

This practice note largely concerns the law as it stood before 26 July 2017. It describes the regime for payment of fees, and claiming remissions (waiver of all or part of fees) in the employment tribunals and Employment Appeal Tribunal that applied from 29 July 2013 until 26 July 2017. The note explains the different categories of fees, when fees were required to be paid and how a claimant could apply for a remission.

On 26 July 2017, the Supreme Court declared that the fee regime was unlawful, quashing the Employment Tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal Fees Order 2013 (SI 2013/1893). Fees are no longer payable for tribunal claims or EAT cases. For more information, see Legal update, Employment tribunal and EAT fees declared unlawful and Practice note, Q & A: Practical issues arising from the abolition of fees in the employment tribunal.