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What are the main tenets of the European Convention on Human Rights? What is the Human Rights Act 1998? What are the implications for employers of art.8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the right to respect for private and family life, home and correspondence)? What are the implications of art.9 of the European Convention on Human Rights: the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion? What are the implications of art.10 of the European Convention on Human Rights: the right to freedom of expression?
Article 11 of the Convention reads: "Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and to freedom of association with others, including the right to form and to join trade unions." It has been suggested that limiting the number of pickets on a picket line to just a handful of workers may be construed as a denial of a worker's right to freedom of peaceful assembly.
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