One month from the date of the request - normally the date on which the request is sent to you, except where:
- an 'anonymous' request having been made through the CAC (see question nine, above), it is the date that the CAC informs employers and employees of how many employees have made the request; or
- it is the date on which the 10% threshold was achieved, where requests short of that figure have been aggregated over a six month period.
The date of the employee request is also used to calculate various other reference dates, including:
- the date for calculating the number of employees in the undertaking (see question three);
- the start of the three year moratorium for further requests, where employees fail to endorse an employee request in a ballot;
- the start of the three month period for initial negotiations on an I&C agreement; and
- the start of the six month period after which the standard I&C provisions will apply, if you fail to do anything about an I&C request (see question 13).
