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      • Introduction
      • Section 1 - Time off for Trade Union duties
      • Section 2 - Training of union representatives in aspects of employment relations and employee development
      • Section 3 - Time off for trade union activities
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Section 6 - Industrial action

62.  Employers and unions have a responsibility to use agreed procedures to settle problems and avoid industrial action. Time off may therefore be permitted for this purpose particularly where there is a dispute. There is no right to time off for trade union activities which themselves consist of industrial action. However, where a union representative is not taking part in industrial action but represents members involved, normal arrangements for time off with pay for the union representatives should apply.

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