Member

These amendments are designed to respond to the Government’s proposal to freeze the workplace bargaining unit and the right to participate in a ballot of those who join after the application date. They are changes to the 1992 Act’s Schedule A1, on collective bargaining recognition. That was a considered Act on the complicated matter of the balance to be maintained in law between employers, individual employees and trade unions. In Schedule A1, on the framework and procedures for recognition and the related entitlement to conduct collective bargaining—that is, as the Act puts it,