Our submission to the Department for Business and Trade’s consultation on the duty to inform workers of their right to join a trade union
This consultation looks at the type of information to be included in statements provided to workers on trade unions, the format of the statement, and delivery and frequency of the statement.
A CIPD survey of 1,176 employers carried out in September 2024 found that almost half (47%) support the obligation to inform new employees of their right to join a union (as part of their ‘Section 1 statement’) and to inform all staff regularly (26% neither support nor oppose, 20% oppose and 7% don’t know).
The findings show that more than twice as many supported than opposed the new statutory duty on employers to inform workers of their right to join a trade union.
However, subsequent roundtables on this issue that the CIPD has since conducted with its community of people professionals reveal there are several issues that need to be considered alongside this new right. We cover the key ones in our submission.
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