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Guidance
Code of Practice: Industrial action ballots and notice to employers
- From:
- Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
- Part of:
- Trade unions: guidance and codes of practice and Labour market reform
- Published:
- 1 September 2005
- Last updated:
- 24 February 2017, see all updates
Code of Practice: Industrial action ballots and notice to employers
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Code of Practice: Industrial action ballots and notice to employers
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This Code of Practice provides practical guidance to trade unions and employers to promote the improvement of industrial relations and good practice in the conduct of trade union industrial action ballots.
The Code has been updated to reflect the legal provisions on industrial action ballots and information to employers made by the Trade Union Act 2016 and supersedes the Code of Practice on Industrial Action and Information to Employers issued in 2005.
Document information
Published: 1 September 2005
Updated: 24 February 2017
- Finalised version of updated code published
- Explanatory memorandum added
- First published.