Examination of Witnesses

Part of Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 4:45 pm on 19 June 2012.

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Michael Reed: I am very glad to hear that ACAS is so optimistic. I am less optimistic. This is a very significant extra amount of work that they will have to do, and it is certainly possible that some of the other changes in employment tribunals are going to make some elements of their work reduce, or make it easier. However, for example, once people are paying fees to go to employment tribunals, that will make claims harder to settle, because there will be a sunk cost issue, which will make elements of their work harder. I suspect it will come out in the wash, but that still leaves them with a significant expansion of work in pre-claim conciliation.