ACAS Early Conciliation – Another hurdle for Employees?
This month’s employment rights blog is written by Paul Scholey, Senior Employment Partner:
“I’m not altogether against the Early Conciliation (“EC”) regime introduced in employment cases last year.
It gives the parties a chance to sort things out without recourse to litigation – I’m all for industrial resolution of disputes.
It can give an employee a “last crack of the whip” with a view to negotiating a settlement when the farcical Employment Tribunal Fees regime means that he or she can’t afford to lodge a real claim in the ETs.
Employers can benefit too, from early, economic settlement.
So I get it. But it ought not to make rights impossible to pursue. And in two recent cases that’s exactly how the EC scheme has operated.”
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