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Acas Early Conciliation: First Year Statistics

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Acas has published statistics showing the impact of the first year of Early Conciliation.  Key statistics include:-
 

- it dealt with over 83,000 EC cases between April 2014 and March 2015; and,

- three out of four employees and employers agreed to try EC in its first year of operation.


Of the Early Conciliation notifications received between April 2014 and December 2014:-
 

- 63% did not proceed to a tribunal claim;

- a further 15% resulted in a formal COT3 settlement; and,

- 22% progressed to a tribunal claim

- of the 22% in which a claim was issued, more than half (51%) subsequently settled by way of Acas COT3.


The full report should be available here very shortly.

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