In this episode Tom discusses the EU's planned new AI and Due Diligence laws and their impact on HR/IR decision making. He also explores the risk of EU policy makers being so focused on due diligence requirements that it risks driving investment to places such as the US, where President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act is attracting many US businesses to return home.

In this first Knowing Me, Knowing EU of 2023 Tom Hayes looks at the EU's 2023 legislative program in the area of social policy and employee relations. It will be a hectic year with initiatives on platform works, gender pay, and use of AI in the HR area. These are in addition to the other changes to which HR professionals were becoming accustomed.    

Tom chats with head of Bloomberg beta, and noted writer about the future of work, Roy Bahat about his view that the US model of labor relations is broken and must be fixed. See Roy's blog here: https://also.roybahat.com/ 

In this first BEERG Byte of 2023 Tom Hayes chats with dr Burkard Göpfert of Kliemt.HR lawyers in Munich about the social media strategies should employers adopt when dealing with collective bargaining and other potentially contentious situations.

It is based on this article from Kliemt.HR/Ius Laboris: https://iuslaboris.com/insights/ten-top-tips-for-using-social-media-in-collective-bargaining-situations/

Among the topics explored by Tom Hayes, in this third instalment of BEERG's monthly stream of short podcasts on issues of interest to labour relations professionals, from across the European Union, are:

Welcome to episode 2 of our new monthly stream of short podcasts on issues of interest to labour relations professionals, from across the European Union. 

In today's episode, Tom Hayes discusses the following key issues: 1. The impact of 10%+ inflation on wage demands and labour unrest, 2. Supply Change Due Diligence, 3. The impact of AI on HR systems and demands for great regulation... Tom also touches on UK plans to discontinue 1,000s of pieces of EU legislation and Ireland's plans to make its work from home rules more employee friendly.  

Knowing Me Knowing EU is a new monthly BEERG Bytes stream which will look at developments in the European Union of particular interest to HR professionals. In this first episode of the series Tom Hayes looks at several important EU legislative initiative that are in the pipeline and will have particular interests for those working in labour relations. This Podcast is based on Tom's most recent BEERG Perspective paper.

In this episode Tom Hayes and Rick Warters discuss ideas around unionisation and collective bargaining. These are topics that will be explored in details at these upcoming BEERG/HR Policy Global training events: in October (in person) and in December (online program) 

In this episode Tom Hayes chats with Vince Toman and David Hopper of Lewis Silkin LLP about UK legal developments, including the aftermath of the P&O Ferry dispute; the decision in the Tesco “fire and rehire” case, and the government law change to allow companies to bring in agency workers to replace striking employees. They also discuss the now complicated law about “final offers” in collective bargaining and when an employer can go directly to the workforce and wonder if a new Prime Minister might try to make it even more difficult for unions to strike.

In this BEERG Byte Tom Hayes chats with Auret Van Heerden about how companies can meet the due diligence expectations of the supply chain laws in a way that is scalable and affordable.