When did you terminate?
Comments (0) Or, to be more precise, and rather less brutal, when did your employment terminate? In technical employment law parlance, what is the “Effective Date of Termination (EDT)”? This is a crucially important date in cases where employer-employee have fallen out because it is from the EDT that time limits for issuing proceedings at an Employment Tribunal (ET) are calculated.
An employee usually has three months in which to issue his/her proceedings – e.g. for unfair dismissal or for discrimination claims. Problems can arise when the papers commencing the claim (called the ET1) are lodged close to the three (calendar) month less one day limit. The ET is very strict about accepting claims outside the three month limit and will only do so if it was not “reasonably practical” for the proceedings to have been lodged within that time.
