UK Discrimination Claims Fall Precipitously

The UK Ministry of Justice has released employment tribunal claims statistics for the first quarter of 2014. According to Michael Rubinstein Publishing, whose blog is a good source for us regarding UK employment discrimination, there has been a "huge fall in employment tribunal claims as a result of the introduction of fees to bring a case and have it heard."

"There was a substantial reduction year-on-year in the volume of almost all discrimination claims. In particular, sex discrimination claims are down 81.4%. ... Age discrimination claims received by tribunals were down 26%; disability discrimination claims down 47%; race discrimination claims down 60%; religion or belief discrimination...

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