Tribunal Claims Down
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Acas has reported that:
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From April 2006-2007 there were 105,177 applications to tribunals compared to 109,712 in the previous year
- Unfair dismissal continues to be the largest category of complaint with 35,583 claims
- The Acas website received 2.7 million visits with the most frequently viewed pages being the A-Z of work and Rights at Work
- The Acas helpline answered 839,335 calls with the top three issues being discipline and dismissal, redundancies and lay-offs and contractual matters
- The number of requests for Acas to intervene in employment disputes and conciliate fell slightly from 952 in 2005/06 to 912 this year. Pay continues to be the single biggest category
For Further Details follow the link to the
Acas website
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Lawyers routinely use the threat of high costs to intimidate workers into giving up their claims at an early stage in a case.
Apart from the psychological impact on claimants, this tactic often works and workers do withdraw their claims.
Those representing workers' interests need to bring political pressure to bear to end this. As is the case in the Small Claims Court, the use of legal professionals in employment tribunals should not be encouraged .
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