A recent UK survey found that more than three-quarters (77.6%) of employers believe that mediation has the potential to reduce the number of tribunal claims. Employers said that the most appropriate situations for using mediation were: dealing with relationship breakdowns between colleagues (39%) or between managers and employees (38%); perceived bullying or harassment (35%); and perceived discrimination (35%). …[Read More…..]
How Workplace / Employment Mediation works in practice
Mediation provides a structured, effective means of avoiding Employment Tribunals and Courts and bringing disputes to resolution in a quicker and more efficient and cost effective manner. Mediation is cost effective, confidential and discrete, and provides certainty to the parties in that they will sign up to their own resolution and thus it can also deliver to the parties benefits unavailable in an employment tribunal or court. …[Read More…..]