UCU: ASOS Deductions and Detriment in the Employment Rights Bill

Motion

Motion text: Congress notes
1. Members have endured employer detriment as disproportionate deductions
for ASOS with negative impacts on workers’ welfare and UCU’s power to
organise for jobs, pay and working conditions
2. Congress resolved to develop a legal strategy to challenge ASOS deductions
in 2023 (motion 11)
Congress believes
a. Workers need to have meaningful legal rights to defend themselves
b. The Employment Rights Bill 2024-25 (ERB) provides an important
opportunity to secure, for all workers, a statutory right to be free of
detriment for industrial action
Congress resolves to call on Parliament to
i. support the right to be free of employer detriment in clause 63 ERB
ii. strengthen the right by removing the limiting words ‘of a prescribed
description’ from proposed s 236A TULRCA 1992, and to
iii. specify disproportionate ASOS deductions as a kind of prohibited detriment
in the statutory regulations.