Dispute resolution
Alternative dispute resolution describes a range of techniques that involve a neutral third party helping to resolve a dispute between two parties, before recourse to courts or tribunals is necessary. Types of alternative dispute resolution include arbitration, conciliation, mediation and early neutral evaluation.
Key London NHS trust to directly employ 1,000 services workers
NHS trust moves to 'insource' 1,000 cleaners, porters and catering staff previously on minimum wage.
Thousands of Northern Ireland nurses strike over pay and resourcing
Thousands of nurses in Northern Ireland have gone on strike over “unsafe” staffing levels and pay inequality with the rest...
British Airways pilots accept new pay deal
British Airways pilots have accepted a new pay deal, ending the dispute over pay and conditions that led to a...
SWR begins 27-day strike over role of guards
South Western Railway (SWR) workers today began a 27-day strike – thought to be the longest in the history of...
Personnel Today Awards 2019: Great Western Railway on track with Managing Change Award
Train operator Great Western Railway got the green signal from the Personnel Today Awards 2019 judges, bagging the Managing Change...
Royal Mail seeks High Court injunction on Christmas strike action
Royal Mail claims there were “potential irregularities” in the strike ballot.
South Western Railway staff poised for 27-day strike
Train drivers and guards for South Western Railway will stage a 27-day strike in December and January...
Union denies postal strikes will disrupt election
The Communication Workers Union has denied that its proposed December strikes are politically motivated and designed to disrupt the forthcoming...
Workers’ rights ‘watered down’ in Johnson’s Brexit deal
The issue of what happens to workers’ rights has become a central plank in the Brexit debate as MPs prepare...
Postal union votes for Christmas strike action
Royal Mail union members have voted 97% in favour of a national postal strike in the run up to Christmas....
Sir Brendan Barber: Why we need conflict
Could fairness at work be the Trojan horse that brings individual conflict management back into the board room? Acas chair Sir Brendan Barber explains.
‘I know I’m not a bully, and I felt the need to say that’: an employee’s account of mediation
An employee shares his experience of workplace mediation.
British Airways may strip striking pilots of perks
British Airways is thought to be considering stripping travel allowances from pilots who are set to strike next week.
South Western Railway staff in fresh four-day strike
South Western Railway train drivers and guards have begun their latest walk out in a long-running dispute over the role...
Ryanair pilots vote to strike
Ryanair’s UK pilots have voted to strike over pay and conditions, claiming that the airline has refused to deal with unions for “decades”.
