Employees Willing to Negotiate Rather Than Go to Employment Tribunal

More than one in ten employees are willing to strike a compromise deal with their employer when they have a grievance rather than go to an employment tribunal.

The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) has provided evidence showing that changes in the law that were implemented in April have successfully streamlined employment disputes

The legislation provided that anyone thinking of taking their employer to an employment tribunal must first inform Acas.

Acas would then ask the employee if they would consider negotiating with their employment for settlement.  The employer must also agree to negotiation and if both parties are willing to negotiate Acas will act as a broker between the parties.

In the first quarter period Acas has full data for, the conciliation service received a total of 17,145 workplace disputes. Of this number only 7 percent of employees rejected the offer of negotiation, and in cases where an employee was willing to negotiate 9 percent of employers said they were not.

Anne Sharp, chief executive at Acas said: 

“Early conciliation has got off to a good start and has given us the chance to help more people resolve their disputes early. [The scheme] has only been running for three months and it is still too soon to give a comprehensive analysis of the full impact... but early indications are very positive.”

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