Sentences with phrase «turnout threshold for»
The bill includes a requirement for a 40 % turnout threshold for strike ballots in «important public services».
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«We put forward a plan in relation to turnout and threshold,» Lee Barron, the regional secretary for the TUC in the Midlands, told Politics.co.uk.
They include the introduction of a 50 % turnout threshold on strike votes, a change to allow employers to bring in agency staff to cover work during industrial action, and a requirement for strike leaders to wear armbands on the picket line.
However, a 50 % turnout threshold would have prevented the introduction of a directly elected mayor of London, for the 72 % yes vote in the 1998 referendum was secured on a turnout of just 35 %.
A key question was whether voter turnout would exceed 50 %, the threshold for the referendum to be binding.