Consultation outcome

Making Work Pay: creating a modern framework for industrial relations

From:
Department for Business and Trade
Published
21 October 2024
Last updated
4 March 2025 — See all updates
This consultation has concluded

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

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

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Detail of outcome

This consultation received 165 responses from a range of stakeholders. Following this consultation, the government will table amendments to the Employment Rights Bill to update the legislative framework in which trade unions operate to align it with modern work practices.

We are ensuring industrial relations are underpinned by collaboration, proportionality, accountability, and a system that balances the interests of workers, businesses and the wider public, with further details in the consultation response.

Original consultation

Summary

We are consulting to modernise the legislative framework that underpins trade unions, seeking views on several specific measures.

This consultation was held on another website.

This consultation ran from
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Consultation description

The consultation seeks views on:

  • simplifying the amount of information unions are required to provide in industrial action notices
  • strengthening provisions to prevent unfair practices during the trade union recognition process
  • removing the 10-year ballot requirement on political funds
  • securing a mandate for negotiation and dispute resolution
  • extending the expiry of the strike mandate
  • reducing the industrial action notice period
  • updating the law on repudiation and prior call
  • the enforcement mechanism for right of access

This consultation provides an opportunity for all interested parties to contribute to the policy development set out in this consultation.

We encourage all interested parties and bodies to review the proposals and provide their responses to the questions.

See the public consultations privacy notice.

Documents

Consultation on creating a modern framework for industrial relations (web accessible version)

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Consultation on creating a modern framework for industrial relations (PDF version)

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Updates to this page

Published 21 October 2024
Last updated 4 March 2025

  1. Government consultation response published, with annex.

  2. Update to survey question 27 in web-accessible and PDF document versions.

  3. Web accessible version of consultation document added.

  4. First published.

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