Policy


Policy ID: EQ044 Policy: Repeal anti-trade union legislation including the Trade Union Act 2016
 
Category: Employment SubCategory: Ministry for Employment Rights



Description and Support Documents


Create new rights and freedoms for trade unions to help them win a better deal for working people

     


Corresponding Key Policy


Employment and Society

Union representation is a legal right


Corresponding Charter Article


C4. Employment
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for themselves and any dependents an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented if necessary by other means of social protection. Everyone has the right to form and to join a trade union for the protection of their interests. Where workers form or invite a union to represent their rights, the union will have fair representation at executive level witin an organisation.



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