Employment law issue

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What is my position on allowing a trade union representative from a union not recognised by my company to a disciplinary hearing? The company is a huge well known entity and are saying my representative cannot represent me as they are not from Unison. I thought that only applied for collective bargaining situations?

You are right. Under the Employment Relations Act 1999 section 10 you have the right to be accompanied by an official from any trade union regardless of whether or not your employer recognises that union. Point them at the relevant legislation.

Thanks @prh47bridge that's what I thought. They have even aggressively questioned the TU involvement and said it was a favour to allow them in and have repeatedly refused to direct correspondence to them. The TU quite rightly pointed this to them and quoted the same piece of legislation.