Employment Relations Act 2004
Employment Relations Act 2004 (2004 c. 24)
- Employment Relations Act 2004 (2004 c. 24)
- Part 1 Union recognition
- 1 Application for decision on whether proposed bargaining unit is appropriate
- 2 Power of the CAC to end period for agreement on bargaining unit
- 3 Duty of employer to supply information to union
- 4 Determination of appropriate bargaining unit
- 5 Union communications with workers after acceptance of application
- 6 Circumstances in which the CAC must arrange a ballot
- 7 Power of the CAC to extend notification period
- 8 Postal votes for workers absent from ballot at workplace
- 9 Additional duties on employers informed of ballots
- 10 Unfair practices in relation to recognition ballots
- 11 Application where agreement does not cover pay, hours and holidays
- 12 Employer’s notice to end bargaining arrangements
- 13 Unfair practices in relation to derecognition ballots
- 14 Appeals against demands for costs
- 15 Power to amend Schedule A1 to the 1992 Act
- 16 Means of communicating with workers
- 17 Unfair practices: power to make provision about periods before notice of ballot
- 18 Power to make provision about effect of amalgamations etc.
- 19 Information about union membership and employment in bargaining unit
- 20 “Pay” and other matters subject to collective bargaining
- 21 Information required by ACAS for ballots and ascertaining union membership
- Part 2 Law relating to industrial action
- 22 Information about employees to be balloted on industrial action
- 23 Entitlement to vote in ballot on industrial action
- 24 Inducement of members not accorded entitlement to vote
- 25 Information about employees to be contained in notice of industrial action
- 26 Dismissal where employees taking protected industrial action locked out
- 27 Date of dismissal
- 28 Dismissal after end of protected period
- Part 3 Rights of trade union members, workers and employees
- Inducements and detriments in respect of membership etc. of independent trade union
- 29 Inducements relating to union membership or activities
- 30 Extension of protection against detriment for union membership etc.
- 31 Detriment for use of union services or refusal of inducement
- 32 Dismissal for use of union services or refusal of inducement
- Exclusion and expulsion from trade unions
- 33 Exclusion or expulsion from trade union attributable to conduct
- 34 Applications no longer to be made to Employment Appeal Tribunal
- Other rights of workers and employees
- 35 Disapplication of qualifying period and upper age limit for unfair dismissal
- 36 National security: powers of employment tribunals
- 37 Role of companion at disciplinary or grievance hearing
- 38 Extension of jurisdiction of Employment Appeal Tribunal
- 39 Ways in which provision conferring rights on individuals may be made
- 40 Protection of employees in respect of jury service
- 41 Flexible working
- 42 Information and consultation: Great Britain
- 43 Information and consultation: Northern Ireland
- Part 4 Enforcement of minimum wage legislation
- 44 Information supplied by worker and employer
- 45 Enforcement notices
- 46 Withdrawal and replacement of, and appeals against, notices
- 47 Enforcement officers for agricultural wages legislation
- Part 5 The Certification Officer
- 48 Striking out by Certification Officer of applications or complaints
- 49 Restriction of proceedings orders: proceedings before Certification Officer
- 50 Amalgamations: approval, listing and certification
- 51 Restriction of grounds of appeal from Certification Officer
- Part 6 Miscellaneous
- 52 Additional case in which election for president of union not required
- 53 Removal of rule preventing appointment of body corporate as auditor
- 54 Means of voting in ballots and elections
- 55 Provision of money for trade union modernisation
- Part 7 Supplementary provisions
- 56 Meaning of “the 1992 Act”
- 57 Minor and consequential amendments and repeals
- 58 Corresponding provision for Northern Ireland
- 59 Citation, commencement and extent
- SCHEDULES
- SCHEDULE 1 Minor and consequential amendments
- Agricultural Wages Act 1948
- Agricultural Wages (Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 1977
- The 1992 Act
- Employment Tribunals Act 1996
- Employment Rights Act 1996
- National Minimum Wage Act 1998
- Employment Relations Act 1999
- Employment Act 2002
- SCHEDULE 2 Repeals