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• Preparing for your employment tribunal hearing

  The employment tribunal will hear your case and make a decision at a hearing. This is sometimes called the ‘final’ or ‘substantive’ hearing. The tribunal will decide your case based on the evidence

• If you're thinking of making a claim to an employment tribunal

  If you have a problem at work you can’t sort out with your employer, you might have to make a claim to an employment tribunal - for example, if you’ve been unfairly dismissed, discriminated against

• If you’re treated badly after using your employment rights

  Your employer isn’t allowed to treat you unfairly because you used a protected employment right. This is called ‘subjecting you to a detriment’. There are things you can do if your employer subjects

• Check what you can get from an employment tribunal

  If you make a successful claim to an employment tribunal, it can award you money to compensate for your employer's behaviour or the money you're owed. Before you make a claim, it's worth calculating

• Check what it might cost to make an employment tribunal claim

  You don't have to pay any fees to make an employment tribunal claim. If you win, your employer won’t automatically have to pay your costs. If you lose, you don’t automatically have to pay your

• Check what happens if you win your employment tribunal case

  You might get the tribunal’s decision about your case at the end of the hearing or they might send it to you afterwards.  When you get the employment tribunal's decision about your case, you might

• Get help with a problem at work

  . But if you can't get advice or representation don't panic! Employment tribunals are set up for ordinary employees to appear on their own and many people don't have a representative. The tribunal are used

• If you're being harassed or bullied at work

  action using different harassment laws Further help Rights of Women sexual harassment at work helpline If you're a woman experiencing sexual harassment at work, you can get free employment legal advice on the Rights of Women website.

• Finding free or affordable legal help

  for advice on things like:  sorting out the money, possessions and property of someone who’s died - known as ‘probate’ buying and selling a home - known as ‘residential conveyancing’  some employment

• If your employer says you owe them money

  . If they refuse to pay you back, you might be able to make a claim for unauthorised deductions from wages to an employment tribunal. You should get advice from your nearest Citizens Advice on whether you have