Chapter 12 Key facts checklists

Chapter 12 Key facts checklists

Trade unions: recognition, collective bargaining, and industrial action

  • The Certification Officer among other mattes decides whether a trade union is entitled to be treated as independent.
  • An independent trade union needs to be recognised by the employer in order to enjoy a number of important statutory rights.
  • Employers have a duty to disclose to trade unions recognised for collective bargaining purposes information without which they would be impeded in carrying out collective bargaining.
  • It is unlawful to dismiss or subject to detriment someone for the purpose of preventing them from joining, or taking part in the activities of, a trade union.
  • Statutory immunity is given only to industrial action taken in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute.
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