CONCILIATION service Acas was wrong to claim it was exempt from employment regulations when dealing with its own workers, a tribunal has ruled.
Civil service union PCS, which represents Acas staff, condemned the quango’s bosses yesterday for “using taxpayers’ money to try to avoid proper consultation with [their] own staff.”
Acas, headed by former TUC general secretary Sir Brendan Barber, offers arbitration between employers and trade unions in industrial disputes.
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