Schedules
Schedule 5Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules: further provision
Part 2Other amendments of the Employment Tribunals Act 1996
I1I24Employment tribunals
1
Section 7B (mediation) is amended as follows.
2
Before subsection (1) insert—
A1
A person exercising power to make Procedure Rules or give practice directions must, when making provision in relation to mediation, have regard to the following principles—
a
mediation of matters in dispute between parties to proceedings is to take place only by agreement between those parties;
b
where parties to proceedings fail to mediate, or where mediation between parties to proceedings fails to resolve disputed matters, the failure is not to affect the outcome of the proceedings.
3
In subsection (1), for the words from “Employment” to “directions to” substitute “Practice directions under section 7A may”
.
4
In subsection (2)—
a
for “included in employment tribunal procedure regulations” substitute “made”
;
b
omit “enabling practice directions to provide for”.