Trade unions and trade union recognition

New and updated

• The consequences of trade union recognition

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include a link to the government website where data submitted by public-sector employers relating to facility time will be published.

• The consequences of trade union recognition: local authority

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include a link to the government website where data submitted by public-sector employers relating to facility time will be published.

• Labour disputes

  Type:

  Indicators

  Updated to include official statistics from the ONS for June 2018 on days lost to labour disputes and the number of stoppages. The next ONS release date is 11 September 2018.

• Ryanair strikes: airline could face legal claims from unions

  Date:

  10 August 2018

  Type:

  News

  Ryanair could face legal action from unions as strikes lead to the cancellation of one in six flights across Europe.

• Joint employer concept to be tested in High Court

  Date:

  8 August 2018

  Type:

  News

  In a case that could open the door for more than 3 million outsourced workers to negotiate directly with their de facto employer, the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) has been granted a judicial review before the High Court.

• Minister showed 'contempt' in botched civil service pay consultation

  Date:

  29 June 2018

  Type:

  News

  Unions and the Labour Party have condemned the government's 2018 civil service pay guidance remit and called for its immediate withdrawal while consultation and negotiations take place.

• Protection from dismissal on grounds of trade union activities - how far does it go?

  Date:

  21 June 2018

  Type:

  Legal guidance

  Consultant editor Darren Newman looks at a recent case in which the Court of Appeal had to consider if, in sharing information from a manager's desk diary, a trade union rep had acted outside the scope of trade union activities for the purposes of the automatically unfair dismissal protection afforded by s.152 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.

• Trade union representative unfairly dismissed for retention of confidential information

  Date:

  21 June 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Morris v Metrolink RATP DEV Ltd, the Court of Appeal held that a trade union representative who retained confidential information related to a restructuring exercise was unfairly dismissed.

• Court of Appeal rules on employer liability for third-party harassment

  Date:

  7 June 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Unite the Union v Nailard, the Court of Appeal held that the union was liable for the acts of its lay officials because they were acting as its agents, but that the union was not liable for failures by its employed union officials to prevent discrimination by third-party lay officials.

• Strikes reach lowest level since records began

  Date:

  31 May 2018

  Type:

  News

  The number of labour strikes reached an all-time low last year, along with the number of workers involved in disputes, according to new ONS figures.