LRD guides and handbook November 2014

Unfair dismissal - a legal guide for union reps

Chapter 5

Recognition and collective bargaining

[ch 5: page 61]

Dismissal is automatically unfair where the reason or main reason was that the employee supported or tried to organise recognition at their workplace, or to secure collective bargaining arrangements (Section 161(2) of Schedule 1A to TULCRA (Dismissal)).