Iconboy said:
Velouria - I'm sorry I'm not 100% sure I know what you mean here. Sorry to be a pain, could you explain again for me please. Thanks.
It seems to me that you have a strong enough case that you don't need to follow that path.
To summarise, you may be entitled to compensation for any or all of:
- Alleged "redundancy" without counsultation;
- Victimisation as the person who complained of gender discrimination;
- Victimisation for having made a personal injury claim;
- The personal injury claim itself - you were asked to lift something over 25kg, yes? That could be a criminal prosecution...
That should leave you with a respectable sum - though, as noted, don't expect to be spending it for a couple of years if they fight all the way.
If they're rational, though, they'll realise that fighting it will cost them
many tens of thousands of pounds and they'll "settle" - in other words pay you a significant part of that to agree not to take it to Tribunal at all.
Or they may give the impression of planning to fight it to see whether you bottle out, and then offer you a largish sum of money on the steps of the Tribunal hearing. As a rule of thumb, I'd tell my solicitor to shoot back "twice that?" and expect them to agree instantly.
And a note to everyone else: this is why you join a union now,
before this happens to you!
