Despite the arrival of a new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition, it seems certain there is no immediate threat to the continued existence of a key plank of the previous Labour government’s employment reform – the statutory union recognition mechanism. This is because while the Conservatives were originally against the introduction of the mechanism as a result of the Employment Relations Act 1999, they accepted it as part of the new settlement in employment relations.
, it seems certain there is no immediate threat to the continued existence of a key plank of the previous Labour government’s employment reform – the statutory union recognition mechanism. This is because while the Conservatives were originally against the introduction of the mechanism as a result of the Employment Relations Act 1999, they accepted it as part of the new settlement in employment relations.
Following a growing bandwagon of employers in the 1990s ending voluntary agreements over un
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