BEERG Bytes

This is part two of our special two part BEERG Byte series focused on the employment law agenda of the new U.K. government, which is just over 100 days in office.

Tom chats with three key members of Lewis Silkin LLP's employment law team: David Hopper, Kerry Salisbury and Vince Toman about what PM Keir Starmer's govt plans.

In this episode they explore the reforms on collective bargaining and plans to end Fire and Rehire... or, as it tends to work in reality fire and replace.

Tom chats with members of the Lewis Silkin LLP employment law team about the reforms being introduced by the new Starmer govt. The discussion is in two parts. In this episode they look at changes to boost UK trade unions. In part two they consider Fire and Rehire... and Fire and Hire others.

Tom Hayes discusses the U.K Labour government's recently published Employment Rights legislation with London based international Labour and Employee Relations professional, Philip Bickerstaffe.

In this episode Tom Hayes throws an eye over the EU's legislative agenda as it impacts labour and HR issues.

In this episode Tom Hayes discusses the Status of Platform Workers Directive with Colin Lecky of Lewis Silkin LLP.

Colin sets out how political compromise was reached in the Council of Ministers with the EU leaving key issues up to Member States to decide.

You can read Colin's analysis on the Lewis Silkin website

Though BEERG is now known as HR Policy Global Europe... we will stick with BEERG Bytes as the name of this series of Podcasts for HR professionals. In this first episode of 2024, Tom Hayes looks at the items on the EU's legislative agenda for 2024.

In this episode Tom Hayes looks at the EU's legislative agenda on HR and labour relations as both the EU Parliament and Commission near the end of their 5-year mandates.

Though things will quieten down from April to June 2024, there is plenty on the agenda after that. There is a "third wave" of information and consultation obligations coming, via directives and initiatives on: Platform Workers, AI Liability, Corporate Due Diligence... and more.

This episode looks at technical issues rather than policy ones. Tom chats with Daniel Beuster, Project Manager with Context, about the technical options and solutions for the growing number of interpreted EWC hybrid and remote meetings and best practise in making these meetings as productive as possible for all participants.

Context is a technology driven Language Services Provider with a strong focus on EWC meetings. Context has been providing interpretation and managing technical equipment for EWC meetings since the 1994 EU Directive, and since the COVID-19 pandemic has embraced interpreted hybrid meetings.

In this second in our BEERG reflections series. in this Podcast, Tom Hayes is joined by Rick Warters, a long experienced senior HR professional, to discuss Remote Work/Working from Home.

Though Tom and Rick come at this issue from different perspectives, their thoughts on what the future holds overlap on several important points. This discussion is based on a BEERG reflections paper setting out their counter viewpoints. You can download that paper HERE.

This is the first is a new series of "BEERG Reflections" an occasional series of personal reflections by Tom Hayes on issues of interest to HR professionals. These "reflections" are informed by over 50 years in labour and industrial relations.