Defending terms and conditions - a legal guide for union reps
Labour Research Department, London
LRD - London
2020
68 p.
workers rights ; labour law ; labour contract ; trade union ; guide ; trade union role
Human rights
English
978-1-910168660
04.02-68235
"This new LRD guide sets out in a clear and accessible way the legal responses available when employers try to worsen existing contractual rights. It explains: • contractual rights and the right not to suffer unlawful wage deductions; • how unions can respond to “dismissal and re-engagement” threats by employers; • how “flexibility terms” work; • how to use equality laws and other statutory rights to defend terms and conditions; • when section 188 consultation is required and what this means; and • union rights, including members' rights not to be made an unlawful offer to abandon collective bargaining. Most of the legal remedies covered in this guide are based on individual rights. But legal rights can only take members so far, and the guide also looks at wider union organising strategies to defend members' terms and conditions, with examples of union successes..."
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