Commentary on provisions of the Act Act Schedule Part 2: Related amendments to the 1992 Act
This part of the Act’s schedule makes a number of technical amendments to the 1992 Act to ensure the new requirements regarding minimum service regulations and work notices are applied to the law around industrial action more broadly, in particular whether certain strikes are protected against liability for the union or not (see paragraph 4 of the Schedule). This also includes that unions must make clear in their notice of industrial action (under section 234A) whether the action is a strike (as defined in paragraph 28 above).
	This part also makes clear that that there is no automatic protection from unfair dismissal for an employee who is identified in a valid work notice but participates in the strike contrary to that work notice, provided that their employer has (before the strike day) given the employee notice of the work specified in the work notice that they are required to carry out on the strike day and a statement that they must comply with that work notice.