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149: 35: 56: 218:. It held that there is an implied term of good faith in an employment contract, and if the employer withdraws this, it is a breach of contract. The consequence was that in a strike, employees merely "working to rule" needed not to be paid, because they had only partly performed their obligations. 245:
He can withdraw his goodwill if he pleases. But what he must not do is wilfully to obstruct the employer as he goes about his business. That is plainly the case where a man is employed singly by a single employer… There are many branches of our law when an act which would otherwise be lawful is
233:. The Secretary of State intervened to get a court order for a ballot of the workforce. ASLEF argued that the criteria of the time, that there was ‘irregular industrial action short of a strike’ was not satisfied, because workers had not breached their contracts. 107: 79: 604: 241:
Lord Denning MR held that ‘work to rule’ was a breach because though the rule book was not a contractual document, it was an implied term that the employer's business would not be wilfully obstructed.
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Roskill LJ said the implied term was that obedience to lawful instructions should not be carried out so unreasonably that things were disrupted.
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concurred and said it was an implied term to serve the employer faithfully.
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rendered unlawful by the motive or object with which it is done.
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