Acas, the employment relations service, is urging small businesses to avoid the risk of facing employment tribunals by considering mediation earlier when solving workplace disputes Acas, the ...

As an increasing number of employers are turning to mediation to resolve workplace issues*, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and Acas have come together to produce updated ...

Who wants to be an employment lawyer? If you have read the Acas Annual Report for 2003, you might be tempted to believe that employment law is a sector in decline. The report shows that the number of ...

In the world of employment law, there are some issues that even the best human resources (HR) teams can’t fix. And sometimes, ...

Talks aimed at resolving the long-running bin strike in Birmingham are to take place from Thursday with conciliation service Acas. Bin workers walked out in an all-out strike on 11 March in the city ...

Union officials will meet conciliation service Acas next week in a bid to end Birmingham’s long-running waste dispute. Talks with the council broke up earlier this week after just 45 minutes. But now ...

Unite the Union has accused Birmingham City Council of “flip-flopping” during its negotiations to resolve the Birmingham bin strike. Talks have ended ahead of Acas mediation next week, “with no ...

Birmingham's all-out bin strike continues today, Friday April 25, but fresh hope has arrived with the involvement of mediation body ACAS. The independent public body ACAS the (Advisory, Conciliation ...