How is the basic award for unfair dismissal calculated

Your basic award is calculated based on various factors, these being your length of service at the date of dismissal, your age at the date of dismissal and your gross weekly salary.

PLEASE NOTE: In all scenarios you will have needed to work for the company for more than 2 years, unless your claim relates to automatic unfair dismissal, discrimination or whistleblowing.

    • If you are older than 41 at the date of dismissal you will receive 1.5 weeks pay (this is capped at £475/week gross) for every full year you have worked over the age of 41 plus 1 weeks pay for every year you have worked below the age of 41. The number of years worked is capped at 20
    • If you are younger than 41 but older than 22 at the age of dismissal, you multiply the number of full years worked (capped at 20) by 1 and then multiply this figure by your gross weekly pay (this is capped at £475/week gross).
  • If you are younger than 22 at the age of dismissal, you multiply the number of full years worked (capped at 20) by 0.5 and then multiply this figure by your gross weekly pay (this is capped at £475/week gross).

Your compensatory award

In addition to this, you may be awarded a compensatory award, however this cannot be calculated so easily as it depends on various factors which the Tribunal will consider based on various factors. These include:

  • Future loss of earnings;
  • Immediate loss of earnings;
  • Loss of your employment rights;
  • Loss of benefits and pension rights;

Other factors to consider

If you your dismissal relates to any of the following, your compensation can be unlimited:

  • Health and Safety grounds. ie if you raise a health and safety concern and are subsequently dismissed for it;
  • Whistleblowing. ie if you make a protected disclosure – please see our whistleblowing page for more details on this;
  • Discrimination. ie if you have been discriminated against on the grounds of your sex, age, race, disability etc.

Potential reductions to your award

There are other factors that the tribunal will consider when making an award, these include reductions for:

  • Any money already paid to the employee after they have been dismissed;
  • If the employee has contributed in any way to their dismissal;
  • If the tribunal considers that, despite the procedural errors by the employer, the employee would have been dismissed anyway. This is called a “Polkey reduction”;
  • If the employee has failed to mitigate their loss. ie they have made little or no effort to find other work;
  • If an employee fails to comply with the ACAS code.

Redundancy

If you have been made redundant, please see out redundancy calculator to find out what you should be paid if you are made redundant.

Contact us now

If you have been unfairly dismissed please contact us now on 0800 756 6605 or 07808 864607. Or you can schedule a call back by filling in this form and we will call you back at a time convenient with you.

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