Sentences with phrase «turnout threshold on»
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.
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During last night's proceedings on the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill, Tory MP Bill Cash proposed an amendment that the AV referendum should be subject to a 40 % turnout threshold.
NASUWT comments on reports today that the Conservative Party will include in its manifesto a threshold of 50 % member turnout in trade union ballots before they will be considered lawful.
An academic who is professor of government at Hull University, the Tory peer wrote on his blog a few months after the Leave vote: «We have had a referendum that was not legally binding and without any threshold (or turnout) requirement.
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 %.