The EAT was asked to decide what the words ‘an email address’ in paragraph 9(2) of schedule 1 of the Employment Tribunals (Early Conciliation: Exemptions and Rules of Procedure) Regulations 2014/254 meant. The EAT decided that Parliament meant an actual email address. The Appellant had in error supplied an email address that did not exist. Parties were agreed that if ACAS’s abortive attempt to issue an early conciliation certificate using this non-existent email address could not be said to involve the use of an ’email address’ within the meaning of the Regulations, then time had not begun to run in terms of s. 207B(2)(b) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 and the Appellant was not out of time for the purposes of claiming lodging his claim for unfair dismissal.
Citations:
[2019] UKEAT 0017 – 18 – 1801
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Employment
Updated: 30 March 2022; Ref: scu.633779
