Central Arbitration Committee
(CAC)The CAC was created by the Employment Relations Act 1975 in the UK and is the latest in a series of standing national arbitration bodies which dates back to the early years of the twentieth ...
code of practice
Formally-defined professional rules of conduct, either widely agreed within an industry or legally binding, the breach of which may lead to sanctions against offenders. In the UK there are multiple ...
Codes of Practice in employment law
Codes of Practice are statements issued with the aim of describing and encouraging desirable behaviour—‘best practice’—in particular areas or circumstances. Often they are designed to accompany a ...
collective bargaining
Bargaining between employers and employees over wages, terms of employment, etc., when the employees are represented by a trade union or some other collective body.
complaints: internet information
Internet usage is increasingly prevalent. The volume of internet information explaining people's rights and dispute resolution processes is also expanding. It is no surprise, therefore, that a ...
conciliation
N.1 (in civil disputes) See ACAS; alternative dispute resolution.2 A procedure of peaceful settlement of international disputes. The matter of dispute is referred to a standing or ad hoc commission ...
disclosure of information
1 (in employment law) The communication by an employer to employees and their trade-union representatives of information relevant to collective bargaining, proposed redundancies, and the preservation ...
dismissal procedures
In a claim for unfair dismissal the employment tribunal must consider whether, in addition to the employer being able to show a reason for the dismissal that is listed in the Employment Rights Act ...
good offices
A technique of peaceful settlement of an international dispute, in which a third party, acting with the consent of the disputing states, serves as a friendly intermediary in an effort to persuade ...
mediation
N.1 A form of alternative dispute resolution in which an independent third party (mediator) assists the parties involved in a dispute or negotiation to achieve a mutually acceptable resolution of the ...
quango
Acronym for quasi-autonomous government organization. Such bodies, some members of which are likely to be civil servants and some not, are appointed by a minister to perform some public function at ...
recognition procedure
(in employment law) A statutory procedure introduced by the Employment Relations Act 1999 and amended by the Employment Relations Act 2004 by which a trade union can secure the legal right to enter ...
