Individual contracts of employment between local authorities and other bodies as employers and their employees commonly incorporate provisions from collective agreements with Trade Unions. To the extent that happens individual employees can seek rectification of the provisions on usual contractual principles. However, However, the collective agreements as such will not generally provide that they are legally enforceable. Then the Trade Union will not be able to seek rectification. That is because collective agreements are not themselves legally enforceable save where they so provide : Section 179 of TULRCA 1992. The equitable remedy of rectification is available only in respect of legally enforceable agreements : the Court of Appeal in Tyne & Wear Passenger Transport Executive v RMT (2022) EWCA Civ 1408.

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