TOMORROW is crunch time for the unions and the States over whether a deal can finally be struck over the proposed new Employment Law.

Representatives of the Transport and General Workers’ Union and the Employment and Social Security Committee will meet again in an attempt to iron out their differences over suggested codes of practice.

In the States two weeks ago the committee was forced to withdraw its proposition to introduce the new law, which seeks to give trade unions a legal identity, to create a code of practice and to set up a resolution process for legal disputes.

States Members voted that the law could not be debated properly because the codes of practice were not written at the time.

But after receiving a draft copy of the codes of practice early last week, the TGWU and Employment and Social Services met last Friday to discuss them.

The regional industrial organiser of the union, Nick Corbel, said: ‘The meeting was very hard going and to be honest there was a full and frank exchange of words.

There were two or three codes of practice we were unhappy with and we suggested ways of changing them.’