Overview

The power of trade unions has been shifting in recent years, and legislation has thrown up a number of complex issues that need to be addressed by employers.

Many of today’s HR professionals and in-house legal advisers have grown up in an age of rapidly developing individual employment rights and declining trade union power and rights. Yet, even against this background, it remains a fact that trade unions play an important role in many workplaces.

Recent memories of employers and trade unions working together to reduce costs during the credit crunch demonstrate the potentially constructive nature of this role. However, no doubt we can also recall industrial disputes which have had damaging consequences for employers, employees, their customers and suppliers.

Eversheds explores the competitive advantage to be gained by creating a labour relations strategy that enables the organisation to engage positively and meaningfully with its employees on its own terms, rather than adopt a reactive stance to such important issues.

Eversheds also aims to give an understanding of the key areas of potential legal exposure so that appropriate action can be taken to identify and mitigate against such risks as they arise.

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