Employment Law Terms

The Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) was founded in 1975 to help improve employment relations. All employment tribunal (ET) cases have an appointed ACAS officer to ‘conciliate’ (to act as an independent intermediary to facilitate settlement). Clients are often mistaken in believing that ACAS officers are lawyers. They are not and ACAS is generally […]

Dismissal where the employer has terminated the employment contract as opposed to constructive dismissal where the employee resigns because of the employer’s fundamental or serious breach of contract.