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Employment Act 1990
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Employment Act 1990
The Employment Act 1990 came into force on 1st January, 1991. It contains rights against the pre-entry closed shop, widens the circumstances where a union will be liable for its officials' acts, creates extra requirements for a union to repudiate unofficial acts, further restricts the types of secondary action which can be lawful, imposes extra requirements for union ballots for industrial action and removes unfair dismissal rights for union members participating in unofficial action.
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Published on 01-Jan-1991
- Resource Type
- Legal update: archive
- Jurisdiction
- United Kingdom