Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Act 1993

1 In section 154 of the 1992 Act (exclusion of requirement for qualifying period of employment, etc where reason for dismissal related to trade union membership or activities)—

(a) for the words “was one of those specified in section 152(1)” there shall be substituted the words “or, in a redundancy case, for selecting the employee for dismissal, was an inadmissible reason.”, and

(b) there shall be inserted after those words, as subsection (2), the following—

“(2) For the purposes of this section—

• “inadmissible”, in relation to a reason, means that it is one of those specified in section 152(1); and

• “a redundancy case” means a case where the reason or principal reason for the dismissal was that the employee was redundant but the equal application of the circumstances to non-dismissed employees required by section 153(a) is also shown.”, and the words preceding that subsection (2) shall become subsection (1).