The return of our monthly format for employment law updates sees new cases on whether a failure to carry out ACAS Early Conciliation is fatal to claims progressing, whether a claimant after ...

The window for entering early conciliation with Acas will be doubled from six to 12 weeks from next month. The Employment Tribunals (Early Conciliation: Exemptions and Rules of Procedure) (Amendment) ...

Demand for the new Acas early conciliation (EC) service may be limited, employment lawyers have warned. The EC scheme, due to be introduced on 1 April 2014, will require claimants to obtain a ...

Lawyers have warned that doubling the time allowed for mandatory conciliation in employment disputes will do nothing to address the underlying problems in the system. A law change coming into effect ...

Early conciliation has helped to avoid seven out of 10 potential employment tribunal hearings, Acas has found. The workplace conciliation body has published research looking at how the requirement to ...

Our June update looks at case law developments relating to health and safety dismissals for remaining away from/expressing concerns about Covid in the workplace, the consequences of not complying with ...

Simply sign up to the UK employment myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Chatbots could be called in to help settle disputes between workers and their employers, as the UK’s state-funded ...

The conciliation service Acas has reported a high demand for its services amid a tough year for employment relations. Inflation and real pay cuts in various sectors have sparked disputes, the annual ...

The number of disability discrimination claims sent to Acas for conciliation increased by 30% from 2022/23 to 2023/24, analysis of Acas data by the legal firm Nockolds revealed yesterday (3 September) ...

Acas reports has helped businesses avoid more than 2,000 employment tribunal claims in just seven months since the introduction of the Pre-Claim Conciliation (PCC) service. The PCC service aims to ...