The 1st December 2020 brought not only the start of advent and the Elf on the Shelf for some but for employment lawyers saw changes made to the time periods for early conciliation through ACAS. ACAS early conciliation is mandatory before employees start many of the common employment law claims in the Employment Tribunal […]
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ACAS Early conciliation one year on
It has now been just over a year since it became mandatory for the parties to use ACAS EC before proceeding with a claim before the Employment Tribunal save for in limited circumstances where the exceptions apply. ACAS have now published their annual report setting out how they have got on in the first year. […]
Failure to comply with ACAS EC requirements
Two recent decisions concerning failures to comply with the ACAS Early Conciliation procedures have been heard before the EAT. The first was the case of Sterling v United Learning Trust where the Claimant submitted her ET1 missing some digits from the EC number on the form. The form was returned by the Tribunal. Her representative […]
Failure to comply with ACAS EC requirements
Two recent decisions concerning failures to comply with the ACAS Early Conciliation procedures have been heard before the EAT. The first was the case of Sterling v United Learning Trust where the Claimant submitted her ET1 missing some digits from the EC number on the form. The form was returned by the Tribunal. Her representative […]
Early Conciliation results
The ACAS early conciliation statistics for the first six months have been released and, whilst not 100% representative of the actual results due to a time lag in people putting their claim in, make interesting reading. By way of a recap in a claim for unfair dismissal it is now mandatory for the Claimant to first […]