Tribunal award: no written statement of employment (weeks' pay)

The two or four weeks' pay a tribunal adds when an employer never gave a proper written statement of employment particulars.

weeks' pay

Minimum	Maximum
2	4

Corroborated Act of Parliament Great Britain in force since 2004-10-01

Checked against its sources: statute verified 2026-09-21·guidance verified 2026-09-21

Scope: The figure is the pair of week-counts the Act states; the cash is the count multiplied by the capped week's pay, a companion derivation under D14. GOV.UK states the ceiling only ("up to 4 weeks' pay"), which is what is registered as the guidance sentence.

Current sources

Source A · LegislationEmployment Act 2002, c. 22 s. 38(4) ("references to the minimum amount are to an amount equal to two weeks' pay, and … references to the higher amount are to an amount equal to four weeks' pay"), applied by s. 38(2)-(3)

retrieved 2026-09-08

Source B · Official guidancehttps://www.gov.uk/api/content/employment-contracts-and-conditions/written-statement-of-employment-particulars ("Compensation can be up to 4 weeks' pay")

retrieved 2026-09-08

History

Value

From

Status

Sources

Show table (1 row)

Minimum	Maximum
2	4

2004-10-01

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Corroborated

Legislation: Employment Act 2002, c. 22 s. 38(4) ("references to the minimum amount are to an amount equal to two weeks' pay, and … references to the higher amount are to an amount equal to four weeks' pay"), applied by s. 38(2)-(3) retrieved 2026-09-08
Official guidance: https://www.gov.uk/api/content/employment-contracts-and-conditions/written-statement-of-employment-particulars ("Compensation can be up to 4 weeks' pay") retrieved 2026-09-08

Receipt

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Figure ID: employment.tribunal.written_particulars_award
Name in the API: Tribunal award: written statement of particulars
Record fields (source type · unit · jurisdiction · status): act·weeks_pay·GB·corroborated
Record hash (canonical JSON, SHA-256): sha256:d0776ffeaf9ff08612dbc2891d4d516f1e1b46cb2fcdab2a74d216a14660bb93
Source snapshots (SHA-256): Legislation: sha256:4fc08bfb2767973af6fd51ca04bcacb98cef186b404de006abd41f6d6c45f844; Official guidance: sha256:9131ae930efff6e75fd954d0a290fbe91c702a7d9329e83e237b45f6cc459768
Listed in the signed manifest: release 3.0.0 manifest · record_hashes["employment.tribunal.written_particulars_award"]
Machine-readable record: /v1/figures/employment.tribunal.written_particulars_award · current only: /v1/figures/employment.tribunal.written_particulars_award/current

Compiler's notes

A range located by two authored LOCATORS phrases, both read from s.38(4) and both required; no textual amendment touches the subsection. effective_from is the commencement of s.38, read from the archived Employment Act 2002 (Commencement No. 6 and Transitional Provision) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1717), article 2(2): "The following provisions of the Act shall, subject to article 3, come into force on 1st October 2004: … sections 34 to 40; Schedules 2 to 5" — s.38 is inside "sections 34 to 40" and Schedule 5, which s.38(2) works through, is inside "Schedules 2 to 5". The Order's own article 3 qualifies the date for sections 31 and 32 and Schedule 2 only, so nothing in it reaches s.38. This SETTLES the D-RD-4 dated debt the row carried until 2026-09-14, when the Order was archived; the probe returns ACT-HOLDS at 2004-10-01 exactly as it did at the convention date, because no textual amendment touches s.38(4) at any date. The Order's title is "Commencement No. 6 and Transitional Provision" — the row previously named it "Commencement No. 6", which the archived document corrects.