IDS: Industrial Action 2010 edition

Helping you gain a full understanding of the legislation dealing with industrial action and how it applies in practice, this invaluable employment law resource:

• Provides an overview of the law governing strikes and other industrial action
• Sets out the legal liabilities to which unions are exposed
• Explains the basic statutory immunities for unions organising industrial action and considers the circumstances in which unions forfeit that immunity, e.g. where industrial action does not have the support of a secret ballot
• Describes the law on picketing
• Sets out the remedies available against unions for unprotected industrial action
• Covers the dismissal of participants taking part in either official or unofficial industrial action
• Deals with the legal impact of industrial action on continuity of employment and employment rights, e.g. the right to wages or redundancy payment