Request an information and consultation agreement with your employer
If a ballot is held
Your employer may hold a ballot (a vote) to decide if they should start negotiating.
They must:
- tell you no more than 1 month after they get your request that they’re going to hold a ballot
- hold the ballot no sooner than 21 days after they tell you about it
Your employer might decide to hold a combined ballot of all employees if there is already an agreement (or more than one agreement) covering other parts of the business in addition to your own.
All employees must be allowed to vote in the ballot and the voting must be done in private.
Results of the ballot
Your employer must start negotiations with you if both these apply:
- at least 40% of employees took part in the ballot
- more than 50% of those voting supported the request for an information and consultation agreement
You cannot request a new agreement for 3 years if the results of the employee ballot do not meet both these requirements.
Complain about a ballot
Download and fill in the relevant complaint form and send it to the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) if:
- the employer has not told you that they’re holding a ballot within 1 month of getting your request - use form 8(7)
- you think the employer is taking too long to hold a ballot after they’ve said they would and 21 days have passed - use form 8(8)
- you believe the ballot was not fair - make the complaint within 21 days of the ballot using form 10(2)