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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. case. In the face of this reluctance discrimination questionnaires can be an effective tool in extracting information from respondents, even before an employment tribunal case has been filed.
The reason for this is that an employer who does not answer reasonable questions asked of him in a questionnaire within 8 weeks, may find that the tribunal draws adverse inferences regarding the employer's refusal to answer the questions. | |||
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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 employment and equality commission site. You can either 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 as of September 2009, but government and government supported websites in this area seem change frequently with the result that links become unusable on a frequent basis) or find them mirrored below.
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