ACAS early concilliation

Early Conciliation address can be any at which business relating to the respondent is carried out

The address of a limited company respondent given by the claimant to Acas as part of the prescribed information for early conciliation purposes does not have to be the respondent’s registered office address and can be any address at which business in relation to the respondent is carried out, according to the EAT

This judgment is a useful clarification concerning the respondent’s address that the claimant must provide to Acas when starting the Early Conciliation process. Most of the other cases in this area have dealt with names, rather than addresses, that have been incorrectly stated. Those cases have indicated that the existence of the EC certificate is more important than the details of compliance with the process leading up to the issuing of that certificate. The implication of this judgment is that, when completing the prescribed information for the respondent in that process, it is sufficient for the claimant to state any address at which some business in relation to the respondent is carried out.

Source: LexisNexis