What is the average award in the UK for unfair dismissal and disability discrimination ?
Normally for unfair dismissal you would be awarded whatever your statutory redundancy or notice period pay would have been. However, if the the dismissal was found to be for racial, sexual or disability reasons then your award could be in the region of half a million. See link below. I always find it strange that if boss suddenly decides he doesn’t like you or takes against you for some other reason then if you’re lucky you get three months pay. If he sacks you because you’re Irish then you get £500,000. Personally I would be happier if the reasons did not matter but if your dismissal was unfair then you got, say, 1 years wages, tax-free of course. Perhaps more if you were near to retirement.
If you want half a million, you’ll only get it from the Lottery. In the E.T., awards aren’t plucked out of the air. If you have been unfairly dismissed because of unlawful discrimination, you’ll be awarded one weeks pay for every full year worked (depending on age, there’s an upper limit of £265 per week). You will also receive back the money you have lost to the date of the tribunal in back pay (less any earnings so far) and if there is on-going loss than the tribunal might award as much as a year or two of that. On top of that you will be awarded a sum of money for what is known as injury to feelings. These are covered by what is known as the Vento guidelines and fall into bands. £5,000 -10,000 is usual. Anyone suggesting £500,000 clearly does not do much law, but reads plenty of the Daily Mail.
