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 ...

Acas says it has been contacted by around 4,000 people about early conciliation since it launched the service on 6 April – equivalent to around 1,000 per week. Early conciliation will become ...

Acas has welcomed the Government’s proposal for potential employment tribunal claims to be referred for early conciliation, in its formal submission to the public consultation on resolving workforce ...

New Acas-led early conciliation rules are just part of a revolutionary shake-up of the employment disputes process. This week the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) will publish its ...

The introduction of early conciliation next month offers a welcome intervention in the rising tally of workplace disputes Under current employment practices, when employer and employee cannot make ...

The Acas early conciliation process could lead to a rise in "vexatious and frivolous claims" against employers, according to a leading employment legal advisor. The early conciliation is one of a raft ...

As we reported in March this year, a new scheme came into force on 6 April 2014 which requires a prospective claimant to contact Acas (the UK employment conciliation service) before they can bring a ...

Whisper it quietly but Acas early conciliation does seem to be settling down well and may yet prove the critics wrong. That is what Acas wants us to believe, but are they right? Last week Acas ...

SWEEPING changes to conciliation rules that require workers and bosses to first try to settle disputes through the new ACAS early conciliation system carry significant risks for employees, an ...

Acas has published its first quarterly update on Early Conciliation which shows that 17,145 people have used the new service between 6 April and the end of June 2014. Around 1,000 people contacted ...

Early Conciliation is a new service set to be introduced from April 2014. It will mean that anyone who wants to lodge an employment tribunal claim will have to first notify ACAS, which will then have ...