Employment and settlement agreement solicitors in Nottingham

Nottingham is home to the only employment tribunal on this site named after the East Midlands — and the lowest median pay of any city here, which puts local wages further under the statutory weekly cap than anywhere else we cover.

Where a Nottingham claim is heard

The Nottingham numbers

How busy the tribunal is

A tribunal named for the region

Most employment tribunal venues are named after the town they sit in. Nottingham’s is named after the region: HMCTS lists it as the Midlands (East) Employment Tribunal, at the Nottingham Justice Centre on Carrington Street. Employment is the only area of law the listing gives it.

The name does a small but useful job on this page. HMCTS publishes tribunal receipts by region without saying which venue belongs to which region, so for most cities here the regional caseload figures come with a caveat. For Nottingham they do not: a venue called Midlands (East) is in the Midlands region by definition.

The listing also has gaps worth knowing about. It gives no building opening hours at all, only telephone hours, and its hearing loop is a portable system that has to be arranged in advance by phone or email. If you need either, ask early rather than on the day.

The most room under the cap of any city here

Nottingham has the lowest median full-time pay of any city on this site, and so the statutory weekly cap sits further above a typical local week here than anywhere else we cover — by more than a tenth of it.

For a redundancy that means the statutory formula takes a typical Nottingham worker’s whole week, with nothing trimmed off. For an unfair dismissal claim it means something less obvious. The compensatory award is capped at the lower of a fixed sum and fifty-two weeks’ pay, and on Nottingham earnings the fifty-two weeks is always the lower figure by a long way. The practical ceiling on a typical local unfair dismissal award is about a year’s pay, not the six-figure number people quote. How the two limits interact.

That is the number a settlement offer here is really being measured against, and it is a reason to look hard at any discrimination or whistleblowing element, where that cap does not apply.

Residents earn less than the jobs pay

Nottingham residents have the lowest median full-time earnings of any city on this site, lower again than the jobs located in the city pay. A good share of the better-paid Nottingham jobs are held by people who commute in.

If that is you, describe your loss with the figure attached to the job, not the one attached to where you live. It is the job you have lost.

The flat £30,000 threshold in section 403 of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 also goes further here than in any other city we cover: measured in months of median local pay, it covers more runway in Nottingham than anywhere else on the site, and around three months more than in London. How the threshold works.

With local pay well under the statutory cap, the statute is not short-changing a typical Nottingham worker; the case for more is built from the claim. What a tribunal could award instead · who pays for the advice.

Common questions about Nottingham