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Trade unions and trade union recognition

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  • Date:
    21 September 2022
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Podcast: Dealing with industrial unrest

    Nick Chronias, partner in DAC Beachcroft's employment and pensions group discusses the steps employers can take to avoid industrial action and what obligations employers have once a ballot for industrial action has been successful among employees who are members of a trade union.

  • Date:
    20 September 2022
    Type:
    News

    Unions take legal action over agency worker strike regulations

    Eleven trade unions and the TUC have launched a judicial review of new regulations that allow organisations to use agency workers during strikes.

  • Date:
    26 July 2022
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    HR talking point: Industrial unrest - why more restrictive union laws are not the answer

    Consultant editor Darren Newman argues that more restrictive trade union laws, such as the lifting of the ban on using agency workers during industrial action and an increase in the level of damages that can be awarded against unions for unlawful industrial action, are not the answer to tackling the current wave of industrial unrest.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Collective bargaining: Imposing a rejected pay award was unlawful

    In INEOS Infrastructure Grangemouth Ltd v Jones and others, the EAT held that the employer had offered an unlawful inducement when it imposed a pay award in circumstances where collective bargaining pay negotiations had not been exhausted.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Trade unions: No protection against detriment for participating in industrial action

    In Mercer v Alternative Future Group Ltd and another, the Court of Appeal held that legislation that provides protection against detriment for trade union activities cannot be interpreted to cover detriment for participation in industrial action.

  • Date:
    8 December 2021
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    The 10 most important employment law cases in 2021

    Despite the coronavirus pandemic, HR professionals have had their fair share of employment law rulings to keep track of in 2021. We count down the 10 most important judgments of the year that every employer should know about.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Supreme Court rules that direct pay offers to workers were unlawful

    In Kostal UK Ltd v Dunkley and others, the Supreme Court restored the tribunal's decision and held that the employer had offered unlawful inducements when it made two pay offers directly to Unite members while the collective bargaining process was still continuing.

  • Type:
    How to

    How to deal with time off for trade union representatives

    Practical guidance on dealing with time off for trade union representatives, including guidance on the right to time off for trade union members for union activities.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Trade union activities: Dismissal due to manager's hostility

    In Cadent Gas Ltd v Singh, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that an employee was unfairly dismissed due to his trade union activities and that his manager's hostility towards him could be attributed to the employer.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Collective bargaining: Employer's direct approach to employees was lawful

    In Kostal UK Ltd v Dunkley and others, the Court of Appeal held that the employer had not made unlawful inducements when it sent letters to employees asking them to agree a pay deal that had been rejected by their trade union.

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