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- Type:
- Legal timetable
Updated to reflect that the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 has received Royal Assent.
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- Type:
- FAQs
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- Date:
- 16 June 2023
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- Commentary and insights
The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill is the Government's response to the widespread industrial action recently seen across public services, including transport, schools and the NHS. But the legislation is fraught with problems - not least because it skips over the question of what a minimum service level actually is, says consultant editor Darren Newman.
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- Date:
- 2 February 2023
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- Podcasts and webinars
The cost-of-living crisis is creating a perfect storm when it comes to workplace relations for many employers. Nick Chronias provides a timely overview of trade union legislation and steps to stave off strike action.
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- Date:
- 9 January 2023
- Type:
- News
The Government has confirmed that it will legislate for six broad parts of the public sector to have to provide a minimum level of service in the event of industrial action.
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- Date:
- 5 October 2022
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- Commentary and insights
In the current political climate, it seems foolish to make predictions about the Government's future policy in relation to employment law. But amidst widespread speculation about a "bonfire of rights", it is worth looking at what the Government has so far said and done that might indicate the direction of travel, according to consultant editor Darren Newman.
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- Date:
- 21 September 2022
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- Podcasts and webinars
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.
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- Date:
- 20 September 2022
- Type:
- News
Eleven trade unions and the TUC have launched a judicial review of new regulations that allow organisations to use agency workers during strikes.
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- Date:
- 26 July 2022
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
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.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
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.