Industrial disputes
Introduction
Disputes with your workforce and/or their representatives - and any resulting industrial action - are costly and damaging to both your business and workers alike.
Therefore, you should seek to avoid any conflict with your workforce arising in the first place. However, if conflict does arise, you should have procedures in place for resolving the source of the conflict as soon - and as amicably - as possible.
This will reduce the financial cost of the dispute, minimise the damage done to employer-worker relations and your business' reputation, and help maintain productivity.
This guide gives advice on how to avoid industrial disputes in the workplace. It also explains the different forms of industrial action and the legal issues that may arise if such action is threatened or actually takes place.
Subjects covered in this guide
- Introduction
- Avoiding disputes with your workforce
- Dealing with industrial disputes
- Conducting negotiations to resolve disputes
- Lawful industrial action
- Conducting industrial action ballots
- Legal issues during industrial action
- Legal issues following industrial action
- Failure to gain statutory immunity - the legal consequences
