The Acas Council has welcomed the Government's proposal for all potential employment tribunal claims to be offered early conciliation with Acas first. In its submission to the Government's consultation document 'Resolving Workplace Disputes', the Council said the plans would enable the expansion of Acas' successful Pre-Claim Conciliation (PCC) service.

A former office manager for a timber merchant has won her sexual discrimination case at an employment tribunal.

Over two thirds of employers say they have no effective protection against employees making wholly unjustifiable claims to employment tribunals. This is a key finding from a survey of employers’ experiences of managing workplace conflict, published in the run up to the CIPD conference on conflict management.

One hundred and seventeen former employees of a Borders knitwear firm have been awarded over £350,000 compensation after an Edinburgh employment tribunal ruled that they had been made redundant illegally.