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 format will
