A Lurker,
Details are important so here you go:-
A "collective agreement" is defined by TULRCA 1992 s.178(1)) as "any agreement or arrangement made by or on behalf of one or more trade unions and one or more employers or employers' associations and relating to one or more" of the seven matters specified in TULRCA 1992, s.178(2).
And
The European Court of Human Rights ruled in November 2008 that contrary to previous rulings on the effect of Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights (right to form and to join a trade union), the right to bargain collectively should be regarded nowadays as one of the essential elements inherent in the right to form trade unions.
And I thank you.....
If you read my last couple of posts again, your comment doesn't actually answer my questions...
Oh, and you missed out this bit from your last post (from the same website you found the above):
In UK law, whether the terms of a
collective agreement are binding as between a particular employer and a particular employee depends on the individual's contract of employment and on whether the term in question is "apt for incorporation" into individual contracts
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