Representatives play a critical rocirc;le in Employment Tribunal (ET) cases in the UK. Using a recently published survey of representatives in ET cases, this article explores the particular rocirc;le of lawyers. The key results are that lawyers may both shorten and lengthen case resolution by...

Using the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey, we investigate the rates of disciplinary sanctions and dismissals, and the incidence of unfair dismissal complaints to employment tribunals in the UK. Workplace rates of disciplinary sanctions and dismissals vary with age, gender, ethnic and...

This paper analyses the relationship between training, job satisfaction and workplace performance using the British 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS). Several measures of performance are analysed including absence, quits, financial performance, labour productivity and product...