Clause 18 - Entitlement to vote in ballot
Employment Relations Bill
9:45 am
Mr Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon, Conservative)
Existing legislation already provides that the ballot will stand even though the union committed minor errors in determining who was eligible to vote or failed to send ballot papers to all those required to be given entitlement to vote. I believe that the clause clarifies that the right extends to situations where a union accidentally fails to ballot an insignificant number of those who it intends to induce to take part in industrial action.
I am not entirely sure what ''small accidental failures'' means. I appreciate that there has been a case, but one case does not immediately translate into statute. What does ''small accidental failures'' mean, and when does a small accidental failure become a large accidental failure? At what point does it cross the line?