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Employers and their representatives are often very reluctant to provide information to the claimant, not least in employment tribunal discrimination cases. In the face of this reluctance discrimination questionnaires can be an effective tool in extracting information from respondents even before you have started your employment tribunal case.
The reason for this is that an employer who does not reply to your questionnaire within 8 weeks is faced with the tribunal drawing adverse inferences over the non-compliance at the hearing. If your employer has not replied to your request after a few weeks it is recommended to send him a reminder advising him of this possibility.
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Tamara Lewis of the LAG has written detailed guides to filling in the questionnaires. You should try to read the relevant guide and refer to it when completing your own questionnaire. Putting in the effort to understand the guide and apply its lessons when completing your own questionnaire is essential to your discrimination case. We previously linked to the various guides that were available on the HRC website but deep links do not work on the new website. You can find the questionnaires mirrored below or search for the questionnaires here at the Equality & Human Rights Commission using the 'advice and guidance' and then 'information for advisers' links, then 'resources to help take a discrimination 'claim' (correct in September 2009).
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