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Starting Date: 21-03-07
Closing Date: 20-06-07
This consultation sets out a package of measures for taking forward the recommendations of the Gibbons review of employment dispute resolution in Great Britain.
The review was set up to look at the options for simplifying and improving all aspects of employment dispute resolution, to make the system work better for employers and employees. It looked at all aspects of the system, including the existing legal requirements, how employment tribunals work, and the scope for new initiatives to help resolve disputes at an earlier stage.
The consultation is seeking views on a package of measures to help solve employment disputes successfully in the workplace so that:
The specific measures being consulted on include repealing the current statutory dispute resolution procedures; providing better help and guidance to resolve disputes at an earlier stage; and improving how employment tribunals work.
In the light of responses so far to question 7 in the consultation concerning procedural fairness, the Government has decided to move directly to a review of this issue. Please see link in Consultation Documents : 'supplementary review of options for the law relating relating to procedural fairness in unfair dismissal'.
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