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Strikes and industrial action - rights and responsibilities for employers, when unions can take action and the effect on employees' pay and working records
If there’s a workplace dispute at your business, you should try to resolve…
Trade unions only have statutory immunity if the industrial action is…
You can ask your employees if they’re planning to strike, so that you can…
During the strike, workers and union reps may stand outside the place of…
You can ask non-union employees to cover work during a strike, as long as:…
Grievances and disciplinary action at work can be solved by informal discussions, formal procedures, mediation, conciliation or arbitration.
Problems with your employer usually fall into one of two categories:…
You can make a formal grievance complaint or face formal disciplinary…
You can appeal the result of a grievance or disciplinary procedure. Your…
You can get help from a third-party to solve disputes between you and your…
If you have been unable to solve a problem between you and your employer,…
Call Acas, contact Citizen’s Advice or speak to your trade union or staff…
This independent report by Bruce Carr QC follows his review of the law governing industrial disputes.
How legal industrial action is organised, picketing and the law and what your employment rights when you are on strike
You have the right to stop industrial action if it's unlawful and you're not someone representing a company
How employment contracts can be changed, problems with changes and breach of contract
How employees, employers and their representatives can resolve disputes about setting up and running a European Works Council (EWC) under the Transnational Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations (TICER).
This guide is about making a complaint for disclosure of information
Employment relations research series no. 119. Reviews the literature on the factors that may influence the behaviour of employees involved in…
Ongoing trade disputes in which the UK is a main or third party.
Trade mark hearings and how to appeal against an outcome.
This guide provides information on statutory derecognition of a trade union
Find out about agricultural workers' pay and working conditions, labour laws, and health and safety laws.
This part of Schedule A1 is about changes to the bargaining unit or where the bargaining unit has ceased to exist
Guidance on the citizen's right to prevent disruption because of industrial action.
Guidance on patents hearings and how to appeal against an outcome.
Apply to set up an arrangement with your employer to be kept informed and to be consulted
The Commissioner had the power to grant assistance to an individual who was an actual or prospective party to certain proceedings. Those proceedings were where an individual claimed that a trade union had done, or was likely to do, an...
We handle shipping and maritime disputes. Cases that we hear include: collisions between ships disputes over the transport of cargo salvage of a ship, cargo or crew disputes over goods supplied to a ship disputes over mortgages and other security...
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