possibly unfairly dismissed during training period of a job, advice?

[BankFodder]

Apart from the comment about wasting the court's time - your advice is a very sensible pragmatic view. Of course it is for the OP to weigh up his priorities and to decide how he wants to proceed. That is always true in any situation.

[becky2585]

The point is, if you waste the Tribunals time with misconceived claims that they have no jurisdiction to rule on, you could end up with costs awarded against you far in excess of the value of the claim itself, which is very low value.

 

Testing boundaries doesn't work at this level - the courts are only permitted to apply the law as it stands. If you want to start setting precedents, that involves then going to EAT or Court of Appeal level, which isn't worth doing with a claim such as this!

 

By the same logic, what's to stop a claimant trying to bring a claim under Equality Act provisions because theyre overweight or have ginger hair?! They'll never win because they have no legal foundation.

[BankFodder]

The county court has the jurisdiction to rule on this issue. There would scarcely be any issue of costs on a simple contract claim like this.

I'm sorry but I don't know enough about discrimination law to answer you.

You are probably right.