150 Financial penalty for failure to pay sums ordered by employment tribunal etc

Employment Tribunals

150  Financial penalty for failure to pay sums ordered by employment tribunal etc

(1)     The Employment Tribunals Act 1996 is amended as provided in subsections (2) to (6).

(2)     After section 37ZC insert—

“PART 2A
Financial penalties for failure to pay sums ordered to be paid or settlement sums
37A Sums to which financial penalty can relate

(1)     This section has effect for the purposes of this Part.

(2)     “Financial award”—

(a)     means a sum of money (or, if more than one, the sums of money) ordered by an employment tribunal on a claim involving an employer and a worker, or on a relevant appeal, to be paid by the employer to the worker, and

(b)     includes—

(i)     any sum (a “costs sum”) required to be paid in accordance with an order in respect of costs or expenses which relate to proceedings on, or preparation time relating to, the claim or a relevant appeal, and

(ii)     in a case to which section 16 applies, a sum ordered to be paid to the Secretary of State under that section.

(3)     Subsection (2)(b)(i) applies irrespective of when the order was made or the amount of the costs sum was determined.

(4)

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