- Collective redundancies—notification to BEIS.
- Detriment on union grounds and blacklisting.
- Three points on procedure.
The first two cases considered here, on issues of substantive law, concern rather unusual aspects of employment law, namely: (1) the interpretation of the law on collective redundancies, but not in the usual context of the obligation to consult worker representatives, but rather in relation to the rarely litigated separate administrative obligation to inform the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS); and (2) the relationship between the general law on detriment for trade union reasons and the much more specialised provisions on the unlawful keeping of blacklists.
The third case concerns employment tribunal (ET) procedure. It arose in the course of prolonged litigation which has now been to the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) twice and is notable for guidance given by that body on three different but equally important points of procedure. Any reader losing the
