Employment tribunal readiness checklist

Could you defend an ET claim a year from now?

The Employment Tribunal Readiness Check for employers and HR teams.

A claim can reach you long after the decision behind it. By then, managers may have left, messages may have disappeared and the reasons for a decision may be harder to reconstruct.

Our free 5-minute self-assessment helps you check whether your organisation could retrieve the evidence and explain what happened.

Check the parts of your process that matter later

Work through 12 practical questions covering:

• Records and evidence: can you find the documents and preserve them when a dispute becomes likely?
• Manager decision-making: are the reasons recorded and stored somewhere accessible?
• Witnesses and leavers: do you know who could help and how to contact them appropriately?
• Dispute management: are risks escalated, chronologies created and conciliation used purposefully?

You’ll receive a score out of 24 and an action checklist to help you identify gaps. You don’t need to upload employee information or the details of a live dispute to complete the assessment.

Check your organisation’s Employment Tribunal readiness

The assessment is a practical preparation tool, not legal advice or a prediction of how a claim would be decided.