The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has ruled that where a request is made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) is required to disclose the names and addresses of all respondent organisations involved in Employment Tribunal proceedings.

Despite BERR's arguments against the proposals, which included that organisations would be exposed to direct marketing by service providers and that opportunities for resolving disputes informally between the parties would be reduced, the ICO decided that there is a strong public interest is disclosing the information. 

This information was routinely published between 1965 and 2001, before being stopped following a government consultation. 

Details of those bringing complaints in the Employment Tribunal will not however be made public.

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