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The Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

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Complaints to industrial tribunalN.I.

125.—(1) A complaint may be presented to an industrial tribunal by an employee on the ground that—

(a)the employer unreasonably failed to provide a written statement under Article 124, or

(b)the particulars of reasons given in purported compliance with that Article are inadequate or untrue.

(2) Where an industrial tribunal finds a complaint under this Article well-founded, the tribunal—

(a)may make a declaration as to what it finds the employer's reasons were for dismissing the employee, and

(b)shall make an award that the employer pay to the employee a sum equal to the amount of two weeks' pay.

(3) An industrial tribunal shall not consider a complaint under this Article relating to the reasons for a dismissal unless it is presented to the tribunal at such a time that the tribunal would, in accordance with Article 145, consider a complaint of unfair dismissal in respect of that dismissal presented at the same time.

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