ACAS publications can be ordered from the ACAS guides & publications web site (from which many can be downloaded free of charge) or from ACAS Publications, PO Box 235, Hayes, Middlesex, UB3 1HF (tel 0870 242-9090) include:-

• A "Model Workplace" booklet described as "a one-stop guide which identifies the features of an organisation which manages people effectively ..... backed up by free training sessions" (see 2005/10/11 - ACAS launches "Model Workplace" guidance booklet).
  
• ACAS Age and the Workplace "Guide for Employers" booklet, April 2006
  
• ACAS Self help guide - Attendance management
  
• ACAS on "Adoption leave and pay" information
  
• Changing Patterns of Work
  
• Employee appraisal


• Equality and diversity in the workplace


• Health, Work and wellbeing - ACAS Booklet, March 2008
  
• Pay Systems booklet
  
• Personnel Data and Record Keeping
  
• Recruitment and Induction (September 2006) update of an older booklet. It gives up to date guidance on recruitment methods (with particular emphasis on discrimination problems) and describes how best to get a new recruit settled into the job.
  
• ACAS on "Redundancy Handling", April 2009 version
  
• Smoking - Information on smoking at work is now within the Health and Employment booklet.
  
• ACAS on "Stress at Work", August 2006 version
  
• Representation at Work
  
• Two booklets on bullying and harrassment (one Bullying & Harassment at work: for managers and employers and the other Bullying & Harassment at work, for employees )
  
• Employing older workers
  
• ACAS on "Front Line Managers"
  
• The Right to apply for flexible working (February 2010 version)
  
• Flexible Working and Work Life balance (March 2007 version)
  
• ACAS on "Holidays and Holiday pay" (April 2009 version)
  
• ACAS information on Annual Leave
  
• Internet and e-mail policies
  
• ACAS information on Maternity
  
• Delivering Equality and Diversity (formerly "Tackling discrimination and promoting equality - good practice guide for employers")
  
• The A-Z of work
  
• Discipline and grievances at Work
  
• Age and the workplace
  
• Managing conflict at Work
  
• ACAS guide "Sexual orientation and the workplace" (Putting the Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003 into practice), April 2004 edition (see notes at Sex discrimination/homosexuals & transsexuals )
  
• ACAS guide "Religion or belief and the workplace - putting the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003 into practice (see notes at Religious discrimination ).
  

There is a general index on the ACAS Publications website.

Their publications include three important "Advisory Handbooks" at £4.95 each (as of 15th July 2008): "The Employment Handbook", "Employing People - a handbook for small firms" and "Discipline at Work". This last is an essential reference work for anyone in personnel management, industrial relations and/or industrial tribunal cases.

ACAS Rights At Work leaflets are available from their website as free publications on the following subjects: Discipline, Grievances and Dismissal; Equality and Discrimination; Information and Consultation; Parents at Work; Pay; Time Off; Trade Unions and Representation

There is also an extremely useful and continually expanding set of ACAS e-learning guides on an ACAS website at www.acas.org.uk/elearning (registration required but this is free).

The ACAS "What's New" webpage is always worth referring to. See also notes at ACAS/codes of practice and for notes on the ACAS Arbitration Scheme go to ACAS/arbitration scheme .