Employment and settlement agreement solicitors in Stockport

Stockport’s claims go to Manchester Employment Tribunal, and Stockport is Manchester in reverse: its residents out-earn its local jobs by the widest margin on this site.

Where a Stockport claim is heard

The Stockport numbers

How busy the tribunal is

Manchester in reverse

Manchester has the widest gap on this site between what its jobs pay and what its residents earn: Manchester jobs pay far more. Stockport, next door, has the widest gap in the other direction. The median full-time Stockport resident earns £782 a week; the median full-time job located in Stockport pays £717.

The two figures sit on either side of the statutory weekly cap of £751. A typical Stockport job is paid below it, so the statutory redundancy formula takes the whole week. A typical Stockport resident is paid above it, so for them the formula trims the week before it starts.

The figures do not say where Stockport residents work. They do make the practical point sharply: describe your loss with the pay of the job you are leaving, not a local median, because in Stockport the two local medians point in opposite directions. Manchester, the mirror image.

The tribunal is in Manchester

Stockport has no employment tribunal of its own. The nearest venue the HMCTS court finder returns is Manchester Employment Tribunal in Alexandra House on The Parsonage, between six and seven miles away. HMCTS lists it for employment and tax, and every hearing room is on an upper floor, so anyone needing an adjustment is asked to contact the tribunal in advance.

That also means a Stockport claim joins the Manchester queue. HMCTS publishes caseload by region, not by venue, and it no longer says which venue sits in which region; the figure on this page is the North West region, the one of the same geographical name.

People searching from Stockport still use the old name, compromise agreement, and it is worth knowing what changed and what did not. In England, Wales and Scotland the document was renamed a settlement agreement in 2013; the conditions for it to be valid — in writing, relating to the particular claims, advice from a relevant independent adviser who is insured and named in the agreement, and a statement that the conditions are met — are in section 203(3) of the Employment Rights Act 1996. A firm advertising compromise agreements in Stockport is advising on the same document under the current name. Only Northern Ireland still calls it a compromise agreement, under its own Order. The names, side by side.

Which side of the cap are you on?

Because the Stockport job median sits under the cap and the resident median sits over it, a Stockport settlement can look very different depending on where the person worked. For a 45-year-old with ten complete years, statutory redundancy on the job median is £8,604; on the resident median it is £9,012, because the cap cuts the higher week back.

For unfair dismissal the practical ceiling on the compensatory award is fifty-two weeks’ pay for either figure, well under the fixed maximum of £123,543. How the two limits interact.

If you worked in Manchester and live in Stockport, the Manchester job figure is nearer your reality than either Stockport median. Run your own figures.

Stockport job pay sits under the statutory weekly cap; resident pay sits above it. Which figure is yours decides whether the statute trims your week. Run your own figures · who pays for the advice.

Common questions about Stockport