MORE than 80 per cent of employers in the region are concerned about the costs of being taken to an employment tribunal, researchers have found.
Six out of ten are concerned about the damage tribunals could do to their business reputation, according to research carried out for the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).
In addition, 83 per cent of managers in the region say they are worried about the effect a tribunal would have on their stress levels.
Last year, tribunals dealt with 98,000 claims based on work disputes. They ranged from problems over pay and conditions to racial and sexual harassment.
But research shows that in more than a third of those cases the individual and the manager had not discussed the problem before approaching an employment tribunal.
The DTI said the survey reinforced the need for a new employment law which comes into force in October, making it mandatory for all employers to have minimum dismissal, disciplinary and grievance procedures in the workplace
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