The Employee Study and Training (Eligibility, Complaints and Remedies) Regulations 2010

• Citation: S.I. 2010/156
• Sections: 6

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as The Employee Study and Training (Eligibility, Complaints and Remedies) Regulations 2010 and come into force on 6th April 2010.

Section 2 Interpretation

(1) In these Regulations—

“the 1996 Act ” means the Employment Rights Act 1996;

“the Procedure Regulations ” means The Employee Study and Training (Procedural Requirements) Regulations 2010 .

Section 3 Further information which the application must contain

(1) An employee must set out in the section 63D application—

(a) the date on which the employee’s last section 63D application (if any) was submitted to their employer; and

(b) the method by which that application was submitted.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) an employee submits a section 63D application by sending, delivering or otherwise transmitting it to their employer.

Section 4 Form of the application

A section 63D application must—

(a) be made in writing; and

(b) be dated.

Section 5 Breaches of the Procedure Regulations by the employer entitling an employee to make a complaint to an employment tribunal

The breaches of the Procedure Regulations which entitle an employee to make a complaint to an employment tribunal under section 63I of the 1996 Act notwithstanding the fact that the employee’s section 63D application has not been disposed of by agreement or withdrawn are—

(a) failure to hold a meeting in accordance with regulation 4(1) and 10(1) of the Procedure Regulations;

(b) failure to notify a decision in accordance with regulations 5 or 11 of the Procedure Regulations.

Section 6 Compensation

(1) The maximum amount of compensation that an employment tribunal may award under section 63J of the 1996 Act where it finds a complaint by an employee under section 63I of the Act well-founded is 8 weeks’ pay.