Trade unions
• Legal definition
• Legal status
• Trade union property
• Listing
• Independence
• Administration
• Trade union mergers
• Breakaway unions and dissolution
Political funds
• Political objects
• The political fund
• Review ballot
• Ending of fund
Trade unions and their members
• Union rule book
• Use of union funds
• Right to union membership
• Discipline and expulsion
• Unjustifi able discipline
• Discrimination
Trade union elections
• Elective positions
• Candidates
• Running an election (or ballot)
• Remedies for union members
• Voting systems
Trade union recognition
• Statutory recognition
• Voluntary recognition
• Transfers of undertakings
• Withdrawal of recognition
Statutory recognition
• Overview
• Requests for statutory recognition
• Agreements for voluntary recognition
• Method of collective bargaining
• Changes affecting the bargaining unit
• Derecognition
• Ballots on recognition and derecognition
• Detriment and dismissal
Time off rights
• General conditions of eligibility
• Union duties and training
• Union activities
• Union learning representatives
• Safety representatives
• Reasonable time off
• The right to be paid
• Complaining to a tribunal
Information and consultation rights
• Collective bargaining
• Collective redundancies
• Transfers of undertakings
• Health and safety
• Training
• Pensions
Collective agreements
• What is a collective agreement?
• Legal enforceability
• Incorporation
• Discriminatory terms
• Transfers of undertakings
Refusal of employment on union groups
• Unfair recruitment
• Employment agencies
• Exclusions and exceptions
• Tribunal proceedings and remedies
• Trade union blacklists
Detriment and unlawful inducements
• Detriment on trade union grounds
• Unlawful inducements
• Right to claim
• Employer’s purpose
• Trade union activities or services at ‘an appropriate time’
• Tribunal proceedings and remedies
• Trade union blacklists
Unfair dismissal
• Trade union membership
• Trade union activities and services
• Failure to accept unlawful inducements
• Non-membership of a union
• Redundancy selection
• Burden of proof
• Tribunal proceedings and remedies
• Joinder of third parties
• Trade union blacklists
CAC and certification officer
• Central Arbitration Committee
• Certifi cation Offi cer
• Proposal for merger