Amicus Warns Companies to Comply With Information and Consultation Regulations
LONDON, September 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Amicus Assistant General Secretary, Tony Burke, warned today that companies that tried to get their employees to sign inferior information and consultation agreements would face a legal challenge from the union.
Speaking at a trade union conference, Amicus' Tony Burke said that some companies were not working within the spirit of the new laws and that Amicus will fight them to ensure the new European regulations were applied.
Tony Burke, Amicus' Assistant General Secretary, said:
"A major multinational packaging company recently proposed an agreement that provided minimal information for employees, and specified that whatever information and consultation opportunities it did provide would be at the discretion of the company. As a result Amicus threatened to challenge the company through the CAC and within days they were in contact with Amicus to arrange a meeting. The company has since renegotiated the agreement with Amicus which we believe is already working successfully.
"Amicus will work with companies who want to work with us on the proper implementation of the new information and consultation regulations. We have demonstrated this and are in talks with a number of major companies and employers federations. If companies try to bounce our members into accepting poor information and consultation agreements, or ignore us, we will use the law to block them."
Tony Burke related specific examples in the printing and paper industries today where companies had tried to push through poor information and consultation arrangements - cloaking their proposals as "better communication forums" and not always advising their workforce of their rights under the new laws or "bouncing" members into ballots to elect committees to negotiate information and consultation agreements.
Amicus is currently in discussion with a number of employers federations in the printing and paper industries as well as some of the industries main companies on how best to implement the new information and consultation regulations.
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