Information and Consultation

The new Information and Consultation Regulations came into effect in 2005.

The HR Compliance Guide to Information and Consultation takes you step-by-step through the issues and options posed by the new regulations, from deciding your overall strategy to the practical aspects of managing the consultation process.

It explains what the regulations require, reviews your options in the key problem areas and provides checklists to help you shape your arrangements in ways that comply with the new requirements. It covers:

• setting up pre-existing information and consultation agreements
• responding to an employee request
• conducting negotiations
• implementing a standard procedure
• contractual issues
• developing the right structure
• forms of representation
• shaping the constitution
• setting up election arrangements
• role and development of representatives
• formulating a communication strategy.

Information and Consultation – contents

Published November 2004

This guide is produced in association with Bond Pearce, a law firm with a strong reputation for employment work.

... and an IDS HR Study
To complement the HR Guide, we also publish an IDS HR Study on Information & consultation arrangements, which examines the practical issues involved in the light of the experience of the seven featured case study companies.