Our ballot form is to accompany the letter inviting employees to elect employee reps. It’s the form the employee should use to cast their vote for who they want to be their employee representatives for collective redundancy or dismissal and re-employment consultation, or consultation on a TUPE transfer. You’ll need to ensure you comply with the statutory election rules, including that the ballot is secret.
Election rules
The statutory election rules provide that:
Ballot form
Our Ballot Form for Election of Employee Reps is aimed at complying with these rules. It contains detailed instructions on completing the form, including how many employee reps are to be elected, how exactly the voting process works and what the employee needs to do, how the form should be returned, who will count the votes and when the outcome of the ballot will be announced. As well as having a ballot box at work, which is the simplest way for ballot forms to be returned, consider alternatively or additionally allowing them to be posted, particularly if you have remote workers (or there are ones on long-term leave). Our form also emphasises that the ballot is secret and hence the employee does not have to include their name. The actual ballot form itself is then pretty simple - it’s a series of boxes containing candidate names and the employee marks a cross (X) in the box next to the name(s) of the candidate(s) they want to vote for. Then, who gets elected is simply who secures the highest number of votes.