Contents

• Background and enacting legislation
• LRA Guidance
• Making an Early Conciliation Application
• Making an application to the Industrial/Fair Employment Tribunal
• FAQ's

Background and Enacting Legislation

Protracted employment disputes can be stressful, damaging and costly for all involved.  In light of this a public consultation was launched in July 2010 by the then Department for Employment and Learning which sought stakeholder views on a fundamental review of employment law under three key themes:

• early resolution of workplace disputes; – the routing of all potential tribunal claims to the Labour Relations Agency (LRA) in the first instance, with the objective of encouraging potential claimants to consider the merits of resolving their disputes without the need to go through a formal legal process;