Acas's revised Code of Practice has been approved by the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. It will now be put before Parliament for its approval until which time it will remain a draft.

The Code is due to come into effect on 6 April 2009.

Read the full article and/or download the draft, in pdf format, at http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2114.