R (Lidl Ltd) v Central Arbitration Committee

Subject Matter

TRADE UNION — Recognition — Reference to central arbitration committee — Union proposing group of employees as appropriate bargaining unit — Proposed group comprising 1.5% of workers in same category within workforce — Whether undesirable as creating “small fragmented bargaining units” — Whether single bargaining unit with no likelihood of proliferation capable of amounting to “small fragmented bargaining units” — Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (c 52), Sch A1, paras 19, 19B(2)(3)(c) (as amended by Employment Relations Act 2004 (c 24), ss 1, 4)

[2017] EWCA Civ 328; [2017] ICR 1145; [2017] WLR (D) 311, CA

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS — Trade union recognition — Bargaining unit

Appellate History