This article was first published in the ELA Briefing.
Acas has published its latest annual report for April 2024 to March 2025. Key highlights include:
- a significant increase in demand for Acas services. It dealt with more than 117,000 individual early conciliation cases, an increase of 13,000 over the previous year and the highest number since the Covid pandemic;
- some 38% of individual conciliation cases were settled at the early conciliation stage;
- where conciliation took place after an employment tribunal application was submitted, Acas’s resolution rate was 79%; and
- Acas facilitated confidential collective conciliation talks between trade union and employers in more than 522 disputes (down from 618 last year), resolving or supporting progress towards settlement in 93% of cases.
