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If you have recently started work, you may want to join a trade union. Explains what they do and that it is illegal for an employer to discriminate against you in any way for joining a union or taking part in union activities.
Includes links to pages explaining your right to join, or not to join a union, how the law can protect you if your rights are flouted, time off for trade union activities, industrial action, and trade union subscriptions.
Explains what steps to take to get your employer to give you your legal rights. Covers how to raise an issue with your employer, explains how a union can help, and your right to join a union.
Help to find the right union for you and your job. You can browse a list of the TUC's unions, use the union finder to see if your employer or similar employers recognise a union, or ask the TUC for advice.
The Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations (the ICE Regs) apply to businesses with 50 or more employees. The regulations give employees the right subject to certain conditions, to request that their employer sets up or changes arrangements to inform and consult them about issues in the organisation.