EMPLOYMENT LEGISLATION

UNION MEMBERSHIP: RIGHTS OF MEMBERS AND NON-MEMBERS  
PL871 (REV 7)

Contents

• Introduction

• Access to employment
• Refusal on grounds of trade union membership or non-membership
• Making a complaint

• Rights during employment
• Non-membership of a trade union
• Trade union membership and activities
• Payment of union subscriptions through the check off
• Right not to be excluded or expelled from a trade union
• Making a complaint

• Protection for businesses
• Union labour only and union recognition requirements in contracts
• Industrial action to promote closed shop practices or against non-union firms

• Appendix 1
  What is an independent trade union?
• Appendix 2
  Dismissal
• Appendix 3
  People who cannot complain of unfair dismissal or unlawful refusal if rights in the Access to employment and Rights during employment parts of this document are infringed
• Appendix 4
  Obtaining an order of interim relief

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Last updated 4 January 2002