Acas Code Of Conduct Research
ACAS was formed from the result of Trade Union and Labor Relations Act. In 1974, ACAS was called as the Conciliation and Arbitration Service. However, it was renamed as the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service in January 1975. Thereafter, Acas is made as a statutory body but it is under the terms of the EPA 1975 (Employment Protection Act 1975) (Concannon, H.M.G, 1978). It is split into 4 areas which are the collective conciliation, advisory service, individual conciliation and promotion work (Susan Curtis, Dennis Wright, 2001).
The purpose of Acas (Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service) is to make better use of the better employment relations to upgrade the working life and the organization. Their motto is that prevention …show more content…
In 2004, the statutory procedure has been introduced so that the employer has to follow in order to avoid automatic adverse tribunal rulings. The amount of single tribunal claims are proved that they declined from 65,364 to 52000 in the year 2004 to 2006 ((Antcliff, Valerie; Saundry, Richard, 2009). The parties that are involved in statutory procedure mostly failed. They drew the same conclusion that the statutory procedure seemed to be unsuccessful (Griffiths, Julie, 2007). The measures are also recommended to be much more simple and flexible and the statutory procedures have to be repealed and the 2004 code is deemed to be inflexible but it is perhaps a classic case of good policy (Gibbons, 2007). Due to the procedures, problems that can be solved informally have now forced to use the formal …show more content…
It also indicates a specific length of time on how long the warning will last. For example, the first warning given to the employee will last for six months. The essential features of the procedures will be listed in a place together and the term of natural justice is not mentioned in the Codes. Besides that, it also focuses on the importance of the written records which states the record of the employees. In extra, the Codes lists out the cases of the gross misconduct for example cases like theft, fraud, drug taking and etc which are serious (Hunt, Dennis,
The purpose of Acas (Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service) is to make better use of the better employment relations to upgrade the working life and the organization. Their motto is that prevention …show more content…
In 2004, the statutory procedure has been introduced so that the employer has to follow in order to avoid automatic adverse tribunal rulings. The amount of single tribunal claims are proved that they declined from 65,364 to 52000 in the year 2004 to 2006 ((Antcliff, Valerie; Saundry, Richard, 2009). The parties that are involved in statutory procedure mostly failed. They drew the same conclusion that the statutory procedure seemed to be unsuccessful (Griffiths, Julie, 2007). The measures are also recommended to be much more simple and flexible and the statutory procedures have to be repealed and the 2004 code is deemed to be inflexible but it is perhaps a classic case of good policy (Gibbons, 2007). Due to the procedures, problems that can be solved informally have now forced to use the formal …show more content…
It also indicates a specific length of time on how long the warning will last. For example, the first warning given to the employee will last for six months. The essential features of the procedures will be listed in a place together and the term of natural justice is not mentioned in the Codes. Besides that, it also focuses on the importance of the written records which states the record of the employees. In extra, the Codes lists out the cases of the gross misconduct for example cases like theft, fraud, drug taking and etc which are serious (Hunt, Dennis,