Large increase in employment tribunal cases

Latest figures from EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, show that the number of employment tribunal cases has risen dramatically. According to EEF, which it says is one of the UK’s leading providers of employment law services, “this suggests that the introduction of dispute resolution and new employment tribunal procedures in 2004 has not achieved the objective of promoting the resolution of employment disputes in the workplace. As a result there is now an urgent need for the recommendations of the Gibbons Review of employment dispute resolution to be implemented.”