Pre-claim conciliation
by Sarah
As part of the Gibbons review the Government decided to invest additional resources in the ACAS conciliation scheme. We have already seen that the previously fixed periods of conciliation have been removed.
ACAS are currently piloting pre-claim conciliation in Nottingham, Manchester and Newcastle with a view to it being rolled out across the UK from April 2009. It will work in much the same way as post-claim conciliation. However, ACAS will look out for callers that fit the criteria and ask them if they are interested in pre-claim conciliation. We will then hear from ACAS conciliators who will try and settle the claim. If this is unsuccessful then the employee can still issue a claim.
We will as always bring you more developments on this issue as they happen but this may be very useful for unfair dismissal cases where the employee is acting in person.
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