Catalogue description Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service: Acas Inquiries: Case Files

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Reference: CW 10
Title: Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service: Acas Inquiries: Case Files
Description:

This series comprises Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service ACAS Inquiries case files. These case files include meeting notes, details of telephone conversations and occasional site visits, letters, surveys and memos concerning the industrial relations and working pay, terms and conditions between unions and employers.

Note: Records with earlier creation dates may be found within this series. It is believed that these were not created in the context of this series.
Date: 1976-1982
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: ACAS
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, 1975-

Physical description: 9 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 100 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2022 Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service

Selection and destruction information: The National Archives records selection criteria 2.4: Records of tribunals, commissions, inquiries or inquests that were of particular public interest or had a significant impact on policy or process
Accruals: This series will accrue records until dated 1990
Administrative / biographical background:

In the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS)'s early years, the organisation conducted inquiries into the industrial relations of a variety of industries at the request of the participants or senior politicians. The inquiries were sometimes requested as a result of a series of disputes in an attempt to improve industrial relations and prevent further stoppages.

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