Introduction
Background and Policy Objectives
Consultation
Commentary on Articles
Part Ii: Union Recognition
Amendment of Schedule 1A to the 1995 Order
Information required by Labour Relations Agency (LRA) for ballots and ascertaining union membership
Part Iii: Law Relating to Industrial Action
Information about employees to be balloted on industrial action
Entitlement to vote in ballot on industrial action
Inducement of members not accorded entitlement to vote
Information about employees to be contained in notice of industrial action
Protections for striking employees
Date of dismissal
Dismissal after end of protected period
Part Iv: Rights of Trade Union Members, Workers and Employees
Extension of protection against detriment for union membership
Detriment for use of union services or refusal of inducement
Inducements relating to union membership or activities
Dismissal for use of union services or refusal of inducement
Expulsion from trade union attributable to conduct
National security: powers of industrial tribunals
Right to be accompanied
Ways in which provisions conferring rights on individuals may be made
Protection of employees in respect of jury service
Flexible working
Part V: the Certification Officer
Striking out applications or complaints by Certification Officer (CO)
Amalgamations: approval; listing and certification
Restriction of grounds of appeal from Certification Officer
Part Vi: Miscellaneous
Enforcement officers for the agricultural wages legislation
Additional case in which election for president of union not required
Body corporate acting as auditor of trade union or employees association
Means of voting in ballots and elections
Provision of money for trade union modernisation
Amendments and repeals
Schedule 1
Amendment of Schedule 1a to the 1995 Order
Determination of appropriate bargaining unit
Union communications with workers after acceptance of application
Circumstances in which the IC must arrange a ballot
Power of the IC to extend notification period
Postal votes for workers absent from ballot at workplace
Additional duties on employers informed of ballots
Unfair practices in relation to recognition ballots
Application where agreement does not cover pay, hours and holidays
Employer’s notice to end bargaining arrangements
Unfair practice in relation to derecognition ballots
Appeals against demands for costs
Power to amend Schedule 1A to the 1995 Order
Means of communicating with workers
Unfair practices: power to make provision about periods before notice of ballot
Power to make provision about effect of amalgamations
Information about union membership and employment in bargaining unit
“Pay” and other matters subject to collective bargaining
Schedule 2 Amendments
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