Tribunal time limits

The EAT has held that the three-month time limit for presenting a claim over an underpayment of wages runs from the date the payment is or should have been made.

In this case the employee claimed payment for additional hours that he had worked before he resigned. It was not until he received his final pay slip (more than a week after his employment had ended) that he knew that the employer was contesting the claim and withholding the money. The three months thus ran from that date.

Grampian Country Chickens (Rearing) v Paterson 1358/00