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How legal industrial action is organised, picketing and the law and what your employment rights when you are on strike
Industrial action is when workers: go on strike take other action, like…
Your union must have a vote (a ‘ballot’) that’s properly organised…
You have the right to take industrial action and you can’t be legally…
A picket line is where workers and union reps (‘picketers’ or ‘pickets’)…
Employment Appeal Tribunal Judgment of Judge Tayler on 16 August 2024.
The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act amends the legal framework governing industrial action to enable Minimum Service Levels to be set in key sectors during periods of strike action.
Employment Appeal Tribunal Judgment of Mr Justice Griffiths on 18 July 2024.
Update on minimum service levels (MSLs) and the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2022.
Employment Appeal Tribunal Judgment of Judge Tayler on 12 April 2024.
Employment Appeal Tribunal Judgment of Mrs Justice Stacey on 9 November 2023.
Employment Appeal Tribunal Judgment of Judge Tayler, Professor Andrew Rowland and Mr Andrew Morris on 12 September 2024.
Guidance on what to do when school staff go on strike.
Information about applying the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels: Passenger Railway Services) Regulations 2023 in practice.
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