Preserving Online Mitigation Evidence
Nowadays a lot of people search for jobs online. If you are doing this, you will need to make sure you can produce copies of the adverts and your application for the tribunal to show that you have made reasonable efforts to get another job (and thereby mitigate your loss).
Online adverts and applications can complicate this process, because it can seem as if you have a record when you don’t. For example, an email with a link to the advert on a website may seem to be a good record. But, six months later, when you’re preparing a mitigation bundle you may well find that the website has changed and there is no trace of the job or its details.
To be safe, make sure you have a full record of the advert yourself. The easiest and simplest way of doing this is to print it out there and then. Or to save it as a pdf.
Very good advice. But how about the reverse – when acting for the Respondent, how can you retrospectively show that there were plenty of jobs the Claimant could have applied for, but didn’t?
I can’t find a good solution to this since job sites tend to take their listings down within a few weeks. Any ideas would be gratefully received.
Ah, now that would be a different blog…