As the new workplace relations system is now in operation for
over 30 weeks, we continue to provide you with updates of our
experiences of the new system and how it is operating in
practice.
Adjudication Officers' Decisions
The first of the Adjudication Officers' decisions were
published on an anonymised basis on the workplace relations website
earlier last month. It is intended that all Adjudication
Officer decisions will be published on the website, though it is
likely to take some time to achieve this. As expected, such
decisions are much more detailed than those previously issued under
the old system and set out the facts, whether those facts are
agreed or disputed, and the legal reasoning for the
decision. For example, in a decision dealing with an unfair
dismissal complaint, the Adjudication Officer helpfully sets out a
number of questions to be addressed in deciding on the fairness or
otherwise of the dismissal. It remains to be seen whether this
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