are you thinking about bringing a tram an employment related claim to the
workplace relations commission if you are then you should watch this video
because in it I'm going to give you three things three critical things that
you need to consider okay first thing is your chances of success you need to
consider your chances of success it's stressful enough time to go to the
workplace relations commission or the labour court or d2 civil courts and
bring it lame in a confrontational sort of an environment and if your chances of
success are very poor with they're not something either you should certainly
consider so achey out said you need to get a good professional assessment or
analysis or your chance of winning and you know then you may be perfectly happy
to go ahead and fight your corner and stand up for yourself and forget about
the stress or put it aside for that one or two days or whatever and that's fair
enough but certainly at the outset you do need a good clear-headed rational
analysis of your situation and your chances of success the second critical
thing that you need to consider is the cost of bringing your claim you might be
perfectly happy to go and do it yourself but it probably wouldn't be well advised
to do so to give yourself the best chance of success you really do need to
professional hurt but I would recommend or suggest that you get a solicitor so
there's a cost involved in that obviously now if you go to civil courts
and you in a case well then generally costs follow the event that means that
the winner takes all so if you have to the civil courts them on your case then
the certainty or the almost certainty is that the other side is going to pay for
your costs however that is not the case in the workplace ovation situation or
the labour court in those for the party pays their own costs so that's
something that you need to consider the cost of bringing your claim and the cost
of instructing a solicitor who might indeed it would have a particularly
complex case or if there was a lot of witnesses or if it was a pretty valuable
case might even instruct a barrister so clearly you know the solicitor barrister
go now if you paid for that's something that you need to consider finally the
third critical thing that you need to consider is the payoff for the outcome
what is the potential payoff if the case for example was for psychological or
psychiatric injury suffered as a result of workplace bullying that's a very very
big kiss and you're probably looking at Circuit Court or high court for that if
it was an unfair dismissal claim then you're looking at potentially a maximum
of two years salary if you win that case and further on down the line if your
case was simply for the fact that the employer didn't give you a written
statement of your terms and conditions of employment the maximum payout there
is one month's salary one wants remuneration for you so you need to
consider the possible outcome the potential outcome that can occur and if
you're successful so there they are the three things i think you should really
consider very very carefully wound your prospects of success to the cost of
being your claim and three the potential outcome the potential reward once you've
done that well then you know you're in a good position to make a good sound
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