The government is consulting on proposals for new minimum service level (MSL) laws in schools when staff are on strike.
Education secretary Gillian Keegan said the new legislation would “help us protect children and young people’s education whilst balancing an individual’s right to strike”.
Ministers would set the expected MSL, and then it would be left up to schools to work out the required staff needed to meet the requirement.
Employers would be able to issue “work notices” to ensure they can deliver the MSL, with unions then obliged to take “reasonable steps to ensure compliance”.
