The Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Act 1993 ("TURERA 1993") was an important piece of legislation.

However, it no longer has any independent existence. It has now been absorbed into other legislation (mainly the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, which it amended, and the Employment Rights Act 1996, which repealed and consolidated almost all that was left of it). The only parts of TURERA 1993 which still exist are a few transitory provisions in Sched. 9 which ensure that pre-TURERA law continues in force in respect of certain matters which took place before that Act came into force.

TURERA 1993 is therefore no longer covered in this programme as a separate free-standing topic in its own right.

Some of the main effects of TURERA 1993 were as follows:

It introduced new maternity leave provisions required by the EC Pregnant Workers Directive 92/85/EC (see Maternity/a general overview ). It also introduced compromise agreements, gave safety representatives and others statutory protection from victimisation , extended the range of automatically unfair dismissals (see UNFAIR DISMISSAL/automatically unfair dismissals ) and made many other significant changes, including amendment of the TUPE regulations to cover non-commercial undertakings (see TRANSFER OF BUSINESS OR UNDERTAKING /non-commercial undertakings ).