What is a registered organisation

Unions are groups of employees. They are also known as trade unions or employee associations.

To be a union, the group must have at least 50 employee members.

Employer associations are groups of employers. The members of an employer association may be a mixture of:

• individual business owners
• partnerships
• companies.

Between them, the members must have employed at least 50 employees per month, on average, during the past 6 months.

These are rare. Enterprise associations of employees, also known as enterprise unions, are a special type of union. To be an enterprise union, the members must be employed in the same enterprise.

An enterprise association must have at least 20 employees as members.