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Government response on Employment Rights Bill reforms: trade unions and industrial action, e-balloting, extended strike mandates, 10-day notices, Certification Officer, legislative timetable and planned post-Assent consultations

Published on: 04 March 2025

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Government response to ‘Making Work Pay: creating a modern framework for industrial relations’

Annexes for the government response to the consultation on creating a modern framework for industrial relations

What are the implications?

The proposed revisions to the ERB would deliver significant and practical changes to the current way trade unions operate across the board. They are designed to make union activity simpler and more workable, for example by:

  • simplifying the information requirements for industrial action ballots
  • permitting e-balloting, and
  • lengthening the mandate period for industrial action

Employers would benefit from a 10–day notice period, rather than the present 7–day notice period, for industrial action.

The government will table the ERB amendments relating to trade unions and industrial action, as set out in detail at paragraph 175 on page 51 of the consultation response, to be considered at the report stage due to begin on 11 March 2025.

There will then be a formal third reading in the House of Commons on a date to be confirmed, before subsequently passing through equivalent stages in the House of Lords...

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