{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-125",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-125.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1996/1919",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-northern-ireland-order-1996",
  "path": "article/125",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "125",
  "heading": "Complaints to industrial tribunal",
  "text": "(1) A complaint may be presented to an industrial tribunal by an employee on the ground that—\n(a) the employer unreasonably failed to provide a written statement under Article 124, or\n(b) the particulars of reasons given in purported compliance with that Article are inadequate or untrue.\n(2) Where an industrial tribunal finds a complaint under this Article well-founded, the tribunal—\n(a) may make a declaration as to what it finds the employer's reasons were for dismissing the employee, and\n(b) shall make an award that the employer pay to the employee a sum equal to the amount of two weeks' pay.\n(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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/1919/article/125",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:40.013845+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}