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 ...

Employers are being urged to update their policies as major changes to UK employment law are set to come into effect.

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 ...

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 ...

The number of disability discrimination cases received by Acas for early conciliation from employment tribunals increased by 40.7% in 2024-25. More than one in six workplace disputes (16%) now involve ...

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 ...

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) ...

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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 ...

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 ...