THASCS Talks (aka) BEERG Bytes

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.

This is part 2 of a two part series on how the coming third wave of EU laws on Due Diligence, AI, Platform Workers effectively mandates some form of information and consultation process. Though their implementation is still a few years away, Tom would advise companies to start preparing now for these laws, which mandate the selection/election of employee representatives.  

This episode was recorded while travelling, hence the poor audio quality in some parts - apologies. Part 1 can be found HERE

In this episode Tom Hayes talks about the coming “third wave” of European Union laws which mandate information and consultation and attempt to promote collective bargaining and ask what challenges they will pose for management.  

This is part 1 of an a two part series of related episodes. Part 2 will be published around June 7th

Today's Knowing Me, Knowing EU comes to you on the day when the European Parliament adopts new rules on binding pay-transparency measures. This is one of the most important recent pieces of social and employment law - and Tom Hayes sets out why companies need to start preparing for this law now. He also discusses the EU Commission's ongoing work to reform the EWC directive and looks at other measures in the EU pipeline such as those on due diligence and Artificial Intelligence (AI).