Acas has seen a significant increase of 15% in demand for their help resolving large-scale disputes in the past year according to its annual report for 2010/11.
The conciliation service’s 2010/11 annual report shows it dealt with 1,054 collective disputes over the period, up 15% from 2009/10. Pay continued to be the top issue followed by redundancy. Acas dealt with almost 18,000 disputes between individuals and their employers in 2010/11 through their pre-claim conciliation (PCC) service, an increase of 80% on the previous year. The proportion of cases where no claim was then made to an employment tribunal was 74%, meaning that 13,158 cases were prevented.
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