Queen Mary University of London has been implementing punitive deductions policies against anyone who dares to participate in industrial action. The Senior Executive Team has ordered weeks and months of pay deductions (five months of deductions in some cases) from staff who withdrew mere hours or days of work in seeking workplace improvements. We are challenging these measures through a range of activities, including litigation support work and community legal education. This page brings together our legal work in its many forms.
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Employment Tribunal
One of our members has been successful in getting a 4 day hearing into ASOS deductions scheduled at the East London Employment Tribunal for October 2024. We are counting down the days and hours in our struggle for justice. The hearing has been delayed in order to take account of the forthcoming Supreme Court decision in a case called Mercer, which also raises questions about the right to strike and the right to be protected against an employer’s detrimental treatment of trade union members. Save the date!
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Employment Tribunal
Events
Our Legal Knowledge Project will be organising events alongside organising ourselves.
We will be watching together the UK Supreme Court in action in the Mercer hearing on Tuesday 12th December. We will likely be watching in the BLOC cinema in Arts One (QMUL Mile End Campus) from 10 am to 4pm with a lunch break 1-2. You can join for as long or as short as you like. Let us know if you would join in person (for at least part e.g. an hour) or would join online, so that we can plan further arrangements.
The Mercer case concerns a care worker and Unison member who was suspended from work and denied overtime while organising for industrial action over pay for sleep-in shifts at care homes. She is challenging the suspension on the basis that it is a prohibited detriment for trade union activities under s 146 of TULCRA 1992, and a breach of her Art 11 ECHR right to assemble and take action as a trade union member. As well as being a really important case about trade union rights for all, it’s also relevant to possible legal arguments in our ongoing and future cases against punitive ASOS deductions.
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