Assessing the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations

Download or read book Assessing the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations written by Mark Hall and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transposition of the EU information and consultation Directive means that the UK now has, for the first time, a general statutory framework giving employees the right to insist on being informed and consulted by their employers on a range of key business, employment and restructuring issues. This article assesses the significance of the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004 in the light of the UK`s previous approaches to the regulation of employee consultation and in terms of potential patterns of implementation. A key aspect of the government`s legislative strategy has been to maximise employers` flexibility of response to the Regulations, enabling the negotiation of organisation-specific agreements and, controversially, providing scope for reliance on direct rather than representative-based forms of information and consultation. The article examines the options open to employers, employees and trade unions under the Regulations and their possible take-up, drawing on the experience of analogous UK legislation, including that on European Works Councils and trade union recognition.