It seeks to stop employers from having the latitude to use minor issues to halt lawful industrial action through recourse to the courts in the form of being granted an injunction. The Bill seeks to amend section 232B of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 to extend the circumstances in which, by virtue of that section, industrial action is not to be treated as excluded from the protection of section 219 of that Act. Section 232B provides an escape from the general rule, that industrial action is unlawful unless it has the support of a properly conducted ballot, in certain specified situations if the balloting process suffered from a ‘small accidental’ failure which is ‘unlikely to affect the result’.
536)
It seeks to stop employers from having the latitude to use minor issues to halt lawful industrial action through recourse to the courts in the form of being granted an injunction. The Bill seeks to amend section 232B of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 to extend the circumstances in which, by virtue of that section, industrial action is not to be treated as excluded from the protection of section 219 of that Act. Section 232B provides an escape from the general
…Do you have information to share with us?