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Industrial action

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  • Type:
    Tasks

    Apply for an injunction to prevent industrial action going ahead

  • Date:
    7 March 2011
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Minor accidental infringements do not invalidate union ballots

    The Court of Appeal has overturned two High Court injunctions preventing trade unions ASLEF and the RMT from striking. 

  • Type:
    How to

    How to avoid a dispute escalating into industrial action

    Practical guidance on avoiding a dispute escalating into industrial action, including understanding when a strike or other action is lawful; negotiating with a trade union; mediation and arbitration; and obtaining an injunction.

  • Date:
    24 June 2010
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Court of Appeal publishes full judgment overturning British Airways strike injunction

    The Court of Appeal has handed down its full judgment overturning an injunction preventing British Airways cabin crew from striking. 

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case round-up

    Helen Samuel, associate solicitor and Anna Bridges, associate solicitor, at Addleshaw Goddard, detail the latest rulings.

  • Date:
    30 April 2010
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Trade union's notice of continuous and discontinuous industrial action is sufficient

    The Court of Appeal has held that, where a union serves notice on the employer of intended industrial action, one notice is sufficient for both continuous and discontinuous industrial action. 

  • Date:
    8 September 2009
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Industrial action: Gate Gourmet employees were fairly dismissed

    In Sehmi v Gate Gourmet London Ltd; Sandhu and others v Gate Gourmet London Ltd EAT/0264/08 & EAT/0265/08, the EAT held that, while the withdrawal by an employee of his or her labour will not necessarily justify dismissal, in a situation where large numbers of employees deliberately absent themselves from work in a manner that is liable to do serious damage to the employer's business, dismissal of those taking part in the action will be reasonable, even where the absence is not prolonged.

  • Date:
    3 January 2008
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Laval Un Partneri Ltd v Svenska Byggnadsarbetareförbundet

    The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has held that industrial action by a trade union in Sweden to prevent a Latvian company from paying low wages to workers posted from Latvia could not be justified.

  • Date:
    12 December 2007
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Cooper and others v Isle of Wight College

    The High Court has held that an employer could deduct only 1/260th of salary from employees' pay in respect of a one-day strike, and not 1/228th, which discounted paid holiday.

  • Date:
    12 August 2005
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Trade unions: CAC has jurisdiction to order re-run of ballot

    In R (on the application of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd) v Central Arbitration Committee, the Court of Appeal holds that the role of the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) had been intended by parliament to be a decision-making body in a specialist area not suitable for the intervention of the courts.