A breath of fresh air in Employment Relations
The new UK Government seems determined to resolve the long standing pay disputes. For the first time in a long time, we have heard...
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Strategic employee relations
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- Jul 12
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Moving towards "grown up" industrial relations
Since the UK election, there have been positive comments made about the first meetings between the Government and unions on some of the...
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- Jun 12
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Building Employment Relations capability - version 2
Recognising the lack of learning opportunities for HR and Employment Relations specialists working in unionised organisations, Joe and I...
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- Apr 11
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Re-defining employment relations
Many HR directors who I talk to, who work in unionised workplaces, struggle to recruit into employment relations roles. I have been told...
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- Feb 21
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A continuous improvement approach to employment relations
Over the years (decades even….) I have undertaken numerous collective employment relations audits or reviews. One was requested by an HRD...
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- Nov 27, 2023
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Identifying & addressing the causes of conflict is necessary to enable new ways of working to emerge
Conflict and breakdowns in relationships between union representatives and employers are a common occurrence. They are also financially...
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- Oct 24, 2023
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Feedback is a gift
In 2022, Joe and I launched our employee relations and engagement development programme and so far, nearly 50 delegates from 9 of the...
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- Oct 4, 2023
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An investment firms view of unions
For a very interesting project with my colleagues @ Joe Perry and @ Richard Saundry, I have read more about collective employment...
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- Sep 8, 2023
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We need to talk about work
This week Joseph Perry and I have run our strategic employment relations network and begun preparing for our third development programme...
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- Jun 13, 2023
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The not so lonely world of employment relations
Our second Employment Relations and Engagement development programme finished last week. We ask the delegates to tell us what they are...
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- Apr 27, 2023
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Keeping your eyes on the common ground
· If you don’t understand the business, will you make the right decisions? Find the solution to the actual problem, not the one presented...
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- Apr 11, 2023
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Joint training is one answer to IR problems but there may be better ones
I often advocate joint training for union reps and managers. It can help build relationships - essential when you are working on real...
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- Mar 21, 2023
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Ensuring disputes don’t become a way of life
Progress seems to have been made in some of the industrial disputes in the UK, although we still don’t know if offers put to employees...
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- Feb 6, 2023
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The role of the line manager in industrial relations
A quarter of the delegates on our current ER and Engagement development programme are line managers. With hefty responsibilities in...
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- Jan 27, 2023
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Developing an employee relations strategy to fit your organisational culture and values
Choosing how to engage your employees – with unions or without or a mixed model – is a strategic issue which requires some thought....
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- Dec 19, 2022
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Don't believe everything you read in the papers
If you believe what you read in the paper, it’s hard to imagine sometimes that any organisation in the UK is actually managing to...
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- Dec 12, 2022
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Building a positive mindset against the gloom
While industrial relations continues to make increasingly depressing headlines in the UK, we completed our first Employee Relations and...
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- Nov 23, 2022
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Investment in good ER continues as our development programme grows
As the industrial relations climate in the UK worsens, Joe Perry and I are preparing for the second cohort of our Employee Relations and...
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- Oct 20, 2022
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A heart-warming story of employee relations
Yesterday, @Joe Perry and I had our first face to face session with our employee relations and engagement development programme delegates...
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- Oct 12, 2022
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Employee relations is most prized specialist skill
According to the CIPD, employee relations is the most prized specialist skill in HR in 2022 (The UK people profession in numbers | CIPD)....
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