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332. Adjudications by Social Welfare Tribunal.
(1) The following provisions apply in relation to an adjudication under this Chapter:
(a) the Tribunal shall, before making the adjudication, take into account all the circumstances of the stoppage of work concerned and of the trade dispute which caused the stoppage of work, including (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) -
(i) the question whether the applicant is or was available for work and willing to work, but is or was deprived of his or her employment through some act or omission on the part of the employer concerned which amounted to unfair or unjust treatment of the applicant,
(ii) the question whether the applicant is or was prevented by the employer from attending for work at his or her place of employment or was temporarily laid off by the employer, without (in either such case) any reasonable or adequate consultation by the employer with the applicant or with a trade union acting on his or her behalf, or without (in either case) the use by the employer or by any body acting on his or her behalf of the services normally availed of by employers in the interests of good industrial relations,
(iii) the question whether any action or decision by the employer, amounting to a worsening of the terms or conditions of employment of the applicant and taken without any or any adequate consultation with, or any or any adequate notice to, the applicant, was a cause of the stoppage of work or of the trade dispute which caused the stoppage of work and was material grounds for the stoppage or the trade dispute,