Northern Ireland Office: Trade Unions

(asked on 16th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment he has made of the effect of the General Data Protection Regulation on the right of recognised unions to access bargaining information in his Department in relation to section 181 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.


Answered by
Julian Smith Portrait
Julian Smith
This question was answered on 24th January 2020

Staff in my Department are employed under the terms and conditions of the Ministry of Justice.

The introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation has not affected the rights of unions in the Ministry of Justice in relation to bargaining information provided under section 181 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.

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