The Industrial Cases Reports
[2021] ICR 1598
Employment Appeal Tribunal
Mercer v Alternative Future Group Ltd and another (Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy intervening)
UKEAT/196/20
2021 May 6;
June 2
June 2
Choudhury J (President)
Industrial relations— Trade union activities— Industrial action— Trade union representative suspended for planning strike— Claim of detriment on ground related to union activities— Whether “activities of an independent trade union” including industrial action— Whether failure to protect against detriment for taking part in industrial action infringement of Convention right of assembly and association— Whether possible to read provision compliantly—
Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (c 52), s 146
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s 3, Sch 1, Pt I, art 11