• (in layman's language) every employee should normally have six months in which to start tribunal proceedings after something has gone wrong at work - an initial three-month period in which he or she should try and sort things out with the employer via the statutory grievance procedure plus the normal (usually 3 month's) time limit under the legislation relevant to his particular claim.

• (in legal language) for purposes of the time-limit extension set out in the Employment Act 2002 (Dispute Resolution) Regulations 2004 reg. 15, an employee's grievance is to be treated as lodged "within the normal time limit" even if it is lodged before the effective date of termination (''edt'') or other date from which time starts to run.

For relevant general notes see Time-limits/2004 dispute resolution rules and/or Grievance procedures .