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Information & consultation

Employers are obliged to inform and consult with employees in certain workplace scenarios. Under the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004, an employer may be obliged to consult with its workforce on key matters that affect employment. If an employer receives a valid request from its employees it is required to enter into negotiations to establish a procedure for informing and consulting them.

Where an employer is making collective redundancies or is party to a TUPE transfer, either as the transferee or the transferor, it is required to inform and consult with “appropriate representatives” of the affected employees.


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    Prezzo closures: 800 jobs to go as 46 restaurants cease trading

    by Rob Moss 24 Apr 2023
    by Rob Moss 24 Apr 2023

    Italian restaurant chain Prezzo announces closures in a bid to focus on better-performing restaurants in shopping centres and tourist destinations.

    • Civil Service
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    Civil service HR function has budget shortfall, union claims

    by Ashleigh Webber 31 Mar 2023
    by Ashleigh Webber 31 Mar 2023

    The civil service's HR function, the chief people officer group, has a budget shortfall equivalent to 100 full-time staff, says union.

    • Latest News
    • Employee communications
    • HR practice

    Twitter worker: ‘HR can’t tell me if I’m employed’

    by Rob Moss 7 Mar 2023
    by Rob Moss 7 Mar 2023

    Designer from Iceland tweeted Elon Musk after Twitter's head of HR was unable to confirm is he was employed.

    • Employee relations
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    Royal Mail strike postponed following legal letter

    by Ashleigh Webber 31 Oct 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 31 Oct 2022

    A Royal Mail strike has been postponed after it served its workers' union with a letter raising concerns with notification procedures.

    • Hybrid working
    • Employee communications
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    Half of bosses agree with home worker monitoring

    by Adam McCulloch 18 Oct 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 18 Oct 2022

    New research from the CIPD finds leaders open to the idea of using software to monitor employees.

    • Employee communications
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    • Industrial action / strikes

    Network Rail pushes ahead with consultation over job reforms

    by Jo Faragher 29 Jul 2022
    by Jo Faragher 29 Jul 2022

    Train operator Network Rail has started its legal consultation with unions over proposed modernisation reforms.
    The proposals are a central...

    • Employee relations
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    • Employee communications

    The heat is on and so is some British ‘compassion’

    by Adam McCulloch 17 Jun 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 17 Jun 2022

    Some sound advice for working in high temperatures as the first heatwave of summer hits the UK; plus why UK workers are so 'compassionate'.

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    • Coronavirus

    Top 10 HR questions May 2022: Bank holidays

    by Brightmine 1 Jun 2022
    by Brightmine 1 Jun 2022

    With the Platinum Jubilee long weekend, last month's most-asked questions include queries about bank holidays, annual leave, sickness, and more...

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    • Employee relations
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    Managing change for HR: five top tips for a smooth transition

    by Bar Huberman 26 Apr 2022
    by Bar Huberman 26 Apr 2022

    Many HR professionals find that employees resist the change and, as a result, change is slow to embed or it does not embed at all. Bar Huberman provides some change management tips

    • Collective redundancy
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    P&O Ferries: Grant Shapps’ minimum wage plan dismissed

    by Adam McCulloch 31 Mar 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 31 Mar 2022

    The government's plan to ask UK ports to block ferries from docking if they do no pay crews the UK minimum wage would not succeed, the docks industry has stated.

    • Fire and rehire
    • Collective redundancy
    • Employee relations

    P&O to pay off workers, claims redundancies were lawful

    by Jo Faragher 23 Mar 2022
    by Jo Faragher 23 Mar 2022

    P&O Ferries has claimed it did not break the law by making 800 staff redundant without consultation or warning last week.

    • Fire and rehire
    • Collective redundancy
    • Latest News

    P&O Ferries: Pressure on MPs to back ‘fire and rehire’ ban

    by Jo Faragher 21 Mar 2022
    by Jo Faragher 21 Mar 2022

    A group of Labour MPs has written to business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng urging him to launch legal action against P&O...

    • Bonuses
    • Employee communications
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    FCA’s new pay offer a ‘grave error’, claims Unite

    by Ashleigh Webber 2 Mar 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 2 Mar 2022

    Staff at the Financial Conduct Authority are set to see their base pay increase by an average of more than 12% over the next two years.

    • Artificial intelligence
    • Employee relations
    • Latest News

    TUC warns against employee monitoring after Post Office scandal

    by Jo Faragher 28 Feb 2022
    by Jo Faragher 28 Feb 2022

    Employers should be under a legal requirement to consult workers before using artificial intelligence to monitor them.

    • Coronavirus
    • Case law
    • Collective bargaining

    The 10 most important employment law cases in 2021

    by Brightmine 8 Dec 2021
    by Brightmine 8 Dec 2021

    Despite the coronavirus pandemic, HR professionals have had their fair share of employment law rulings to keep track of in...

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