articles - Labour and employment law

Rights of trade unions

Under the Act on Trade Unions, the rights of a trade union depend on the level of its membership.

The required levels of membership are:

• at least 10 members for a workplace trade union,
• a total of at least 10 members across all the employers spanned by an inter-workplace trade union (it is sufficient for a given employer to have one employee as a member of an inter-workplace trade union for that union to enjoy trade union rights).

A condition for calling a strike in a collective labour dispute is to obtain the approval of the employees through a strike referendum. The Act on Resolution of Collective Disputes gives only limited indications of the rules under which such a referendum should be conducted.