Additional Award - legal definition

An additional award is made in unfair dismissal claims, where an employment tribunal orders an employer to re-engage or reinstate and employee and the employer refuses to do so. The actual award is for between 26 - 52 weeks pay. The rate of pay for each week is governed by statute, rather than the employee's actual weekly rate of pay. However, employment tribunals have discretion to award more than this if the employee's lost is greater.