Acas, or the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service is an organisation which aims to improve working life through better employment relations. Acas provides information, advice, training and ...

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 ...

The number of early conciliation notifications has levelled off according to Acas, which has published its 2016/17 annual report. There were circa 92,251 early conciliation notifications in 2016-17, ...

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 ...

More than 80% of Public and Commercial Services union members back industrial action The conciliation service Acas is facing a strike by some of its employees after they voted for industrial action in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Timing is often crucial. Do you wish that you had exchanged your Icelandic individual savings account for premium bonds (now the geriatric pin-up of the savings world) earlier this year? You would be ...

The British Airways strike was one of several high profile industrial disputes The conciliation service Acas has seen a 15% rise in demand for its help dealing with industrial disputes. Acas said in ...

Members of the PCS union, including those whose job is to mediate between workers and bosses in disputes, backed strikes by 83 per cent STAFF at conciliation service Acas have voted to strike in a row ...

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 ...

The conciliation service Acas has seen a 15% rise in demand for its help dealing with industrial disputes. Acas said in its annual report that it has dealt with 1,054 collective disputes in the past ...