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Employment Appeal Tribunal Judgment of Judge Stout on 13 May 2025.
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:…
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’)…
New measures to make it a criminal offence for people who are not qualified as a nurse to use the title and mislead the public.
How to close down your limited company by getting it struck off the Companies Register
Guidance for companies to work out and claim relief from Corporation Tax on terminal losses, capital losses and property income losses.
Find out about the type of losses your company can offset against profits in future accounting periods.
New regional improvement teams expanded to reach more than 200 schools and 120,000 children to drive up standards across the country.
Ukraine’s armed forces will be backed by more advanced attack drones to tackle Russian aggression in the Black Sea, following a deal struck by the UK government and an Anglo-American defence tech company.
Ending doctor strikes saved 500,000 appointments and operations, and cut waiting lists by 193,000.
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