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Informal discussions on HR and labour relations issues. Moderated by Tom Hayes of HR Policy Global/BEERG.
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In this episode Tom chats with IBEC's Dr Kara McGann about the EU's Pay Transparency Directive. Is it the game changer that some hope... or is the reality that the gender pay gap arises between categories and between occupations... not within them, which is the focus of the Directive. They discuss barriers to workplace equality and focus on the growing issue of elderly care in society.
Auret Van Heerden joins Tom to discuss the rollback of EU due diligence laws.... but this does not mean the issue has gone away. They explore how competition and tax authorities - such as those in France and Italy - are pursuing due diligence breaches. They also discuss the problem of rogue and criminal involvement in labour supply and what HR management should be doing now,
Tom Hayes chats with Dr Guy Burton, academic and global political analyst and host of the 10 Minutes On podcast about the "twin track" Chinese economy and China's evolving relations with Europe and the U.S.
Tom is joined by Auret van Heerden, global supply chain expert, to discuss why Brussels walking back regulations like CSRD and CSDDD after positioning itself as an ethical standard-setter? Auret shares his insights... including his conclusion that situation with forced and child labour is worsening, despite widespread corporate policies against such practices.
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.
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).
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/
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 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.
In the latest BEERG Byte #39 Tom Hayes chats with Dr Gerlind Wisskirchen, of C/M/S/-HS about a recent study her labour law team conducted on the content of EWC agreements. The survey looked at country of jurisdiction, the number of representatives of EWCs, employee thresholds for EWC seats, budgets for experts, amongst other things. They also discuss the new German Whistleblowing legislation, and the agenda of the SDP/FDP/Green government. It is available as a Videocast on YouTube
BEERG's Tom Hayes chats with David Hopper and Vince Toman of Lewis Silkin about the controversy arising for P&O ferries decision to make 800 UK based seafarers redundant. The discussion was recorded on March 25th one day after a UK Parliamentary committee hearing where MPs took the P&O management to task over their actions and questioned UK ministers on their response, specifically lacunas in the UK’s laws, which the UK government says it will speedily address.
In this first BEERG Byte of 2022 , Tom chats with Philip Bickerstaffe, an experienced labour relations leader, with a successful career on the union and management side. Philip believes the current conversation on remote/hybrid working excludes a huge part of the workforce, those who cannot take advantage of its benefits. Philip wrote an excellent post on his topic on LinkedIn. Tom and Philip discuss what, if anything, we can offer to those who can’t share the benefits of remote working, what is the differentiator?
We know Northern Ireland from its troubled past and the current argument over the NI Protocol… but does Northern Ireland have a distinct IR culture? Is that different from the rest of the UK?
What might the Protocol mean for IR in NI? Would NI legislation be very different from that of the UK? What about the Equality Directives? What about Data Adequacy?
Tom is joined by Ciara Fulton of Lewis Silkin LLP and Mark McAllister of the Northern Ireland the Labour Relations Agency, to discuss these issues
Tom is joined by Lea Rossi and Marco Sideri, partners in the law firm, Toffoletto De Luca Tamajo e Soci, to discuss the “Green Pass” obligation on employees, introduced last Friday in Italy. The pass, accessed via an App, shows if the person has met one of three criteria. It is a Green/Red (yes/no) system. The criteria are: 1. has the required Covid vaccination(s), 2. recovered from Covid-19 within the past 6 months, or 3. has a negative swab test taken in the past 48-72 hours. The App does not indicate which criteria was matched, just that the person has matched one and is able to enter the workplace. Recorded Oct 18th 2021
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