Acas has responded to a Government proposal that all potential employment tribunal claims are to be offered early conciliation with Acas first.
Employment tribunal reform, which the Government claims will boost economic growth, will not create new jobs, say employers.
Employers are seeing their legal bills soar as laid-off workers take them to court to dispute the size of redundancy settlements according to research from commercial law firm EMW.
The conviction of Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings for corporate manslaughter will herald an avalanche of similar cases, lawyers today warned.
Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings was this afternoon fined the sum of 385,000 following its conviction for corporate manslaughter on Tuesday.
Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings yesterday became the first company in the UK to be convicted of the offence of corporate manslaughter, in a test case that will cause waves in the industry.
A leading HR director has called on ministers and policy makers to see for themselves the "Byzantine" procedures that employers have to navigate to deal with disruptive employees.
Organisations will be penalised for losing an employment tribunal case under proposals buried within a government consultation designed to shake-up the tribunal system.
A law firm has told business leaders that they can take "comfort" from a recent ruling on age discrimination.
The Corporate Manslaughter and Homicide Act 2007 came into force on 6 April 2008. This Act makes it an offence for an organisation to manage or organise its activities in such a way as to cause a...
The number of tribunal claims brought against employers in England, Scotland and Wales has soared in the past year, new findings reveal.
The controversial case of Gibb v Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust has gone to the heart of the highly relevant issue of whether employers can offer generous terms of payment for terminating...
