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Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service: Acas Inquiries: Case Files
Catalogue reference: CW 10
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CW 10
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...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CW 10
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Title (The name of the record)
- Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service: Acas Inquiries: Case Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1976-1982
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Description (What the record is about)
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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.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- ACAS
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, 1975-1975
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 9 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 100 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2022 Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service
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- Topics
- Labour
- Communications
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- This series will accrue records until dated 1990
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- 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
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13504273/
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