Legal | Menopause-related tribunals quadruple in 3 years

Employment tribunals centring on menopause-related issues have quadrupled in the past three years, new analysis from the Menopause Experts Group has revealed.

A total of 43 cases referencing menopause were referred in the tribunal process since April 2017. The analysis found that there were six cases in the last nine months of 2017, compared with ten of in the first six months of this year.

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The term ‘menopause’ was mentioned eight times in tribunal rulings in 2017, but according to the new findings, has already featured 116 times in the first six months of 2021. If this rate were to continue, there would be 232 mentions over the course of a full year.

A quarter of the 43 employment tribunals took place in London, with six in Glasgow, four in Birmingham and two each in Manchester, Cardiff, Dundee and Leicester.