What happens if I am not happy with the Agreement?

There is no legal or other obligation on you to sign a compromise agreement if you are not happy with it.

At its simplest, refusing to sign means that there is no agreement between you and your employer, and you are free to make a claim to the employment tribunal (which must be within 3 months of your termination date). In redundancy cases, however, this could mean that your employer would refuse to pay you the full enhanced package and will instead pay the minimum state entitlement. In non-redundancy cases, what you are putting in jeopardy is the ex-gratia payment being offered.

Many compromise agreements are, however, capable of being negotiated upwards. In some cases, a tribunal claim may be necessary.

If you wish to reject the compromise agreement and bring a claim against your employer, we are prepared to consider a no win-no fee funding option. This means if we do not recover a sum that you are happy with, you do not pay us. Your payment is contingent on us negotiating a settlement or winning an award at tribunal and will be expressed as a percentage of actual sums received from your employer. This is known as a ‘contingency fee’ form of funding.

We have a 70% success rate of negotiating further sums from employers for those cases that we take on.

We can advise wherever you are in the UK. We do not need to see you.

Please do not hesitate to contact Philip Landau for clarification of these issues or to discuss tactics.