Part V Protection from suffering detriment in employment
Rights not to suffer detriment
47 Employee representatives.
(1)
An employee has the right not to be subjected to any detriment by any act, or any deliberate failure to act, by his employer done on the ground that, being—
(a)
an employee representative for the M1purposes of Chapter II of Part IV of the M2Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (redundancies) or Regulations 10 and 11 of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981, or
(b)
a candidate in an election in which any person elected will, on being elected, be such an employee representative,
he performed (or proposed to perform) any functions or activities as such an employee representative or candidate.
F1(1A)
An employee has the right not to be subjected to any detriment by any act, or by any deliberate failure to act, by his employer done on the ground of his participation in an election of employee representatives for the purposes of Chapter II of Part IV of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (redundancies) or Regulations 10 and 11 of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981.