Consultation on Prohibiting Blacklisting of Trade Union Members

• Author:
• Daniel Barnett

Section 3 of the Employment Relations Act 1999 contains a power enabling the Secretary of State to introduce regulations prohibiting the compilation or use of trade union blacklists (that is, a list which contains details of members of trade unions, or of trade union activists).

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has stated that, whilst it does not intend to introduce such Regulations now, it is consulting on the form of proposed Regulations so that they can be introduced swiftly sho... (56 more words)

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