22 January 2016

The Institute of Employment Rights (IER) has published its response to the government's consultation on hiring agency staff during strike action in September 2015, stating that the move is unjustified and will intensify conflict.

22 January 2016

The Institute of Employment Rights has now published its response to the government's consultation into the 40% support threshold for strike ballots in "important public services", part of the Trade Union Bill, following the government's disappointing response to the consultation yesterday.

21 January 2016

The government has vowed to remove its broad reference to ancillary workers involved in the provision of public services in the Trade Union Bill as part of its response to a consultation on its proposals to limit strike action in "important public services", which was released today. Instead, it has published a more definitive list of which services will be included.

21 January 2016

A motion by Baroness Smith of Basildon that Clauses 10 and 11 of the Trade Union Bill – pertaining to restrictions on the funding of the Labour Party – are scrutinised by a Select Committee has been approved by the House of Lords.

20 January 2016

The latest raft of amendments to the Trade Union Bill have been published, largely by Liberal Democrat peers Lord Stoneham of Droxford and Baroness Burt of Solihull. They have proposed the following changes to rebalance the Bill to reduce the burden and injustice on trade unions:

19 January 2016

Lord Monks has proposed an amendment to the Trade Union Bill to remove a dangerous statutory instrument, which would allow the Secretary of State to treat any organisation or worker funded wholly or partly from public funds and that performs functions that could be considered to be "of a public nature" to be treated as a "public service" with the regard to the Bill's restrictions on the check-off system.