A new Transport Committee report outlines key principles for what the Government should include in ‘minimum service levels’ regulations for railway worker strikes.

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While the Government’s Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act became law earlier this year, the legislation’s purpose was to empower ministers to make new regulations that would set a required minimum level of service during strikes. Details of those regulations and how they could work in practice have yet to be unveiled by the Department for Transport (DfT).

Following its inquiry, the cross-party Committee has challenged the Government to ensure that regulations it brings forward meet the following criteria:

a) A minimum service level provided on strike days should be at least as good as typically provided on previous strike days;

b) Safety on the network for staff and the travelling public must be the primary consideration;

c) The minimum service level must be flexible enough to be applied to different patterns of industrial action affecting different employers;

d) Regulations should reflect the differential impacts on staff operating rail services on strike days. The greater responsibilities placed on those who must work on strike days to provide a minimum service must be reflected in pay and...

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