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Managing International Employee Relations....Successfully - Barcelona, Spain - April 26 - 29, 2010
member price: €3,000 | non-member price: €3,950

Managing International Employee Relations....Successfully
Barcelona, Spain
April 26 - 29, 2010


For the past five BEERG has been running its successful “Managing Employee Relations in Europe” programme, which has been attended by executives responsible for European employee relations in around 100 major international companies.

Setting up, renegotiating and running  European Works Councils and managing change in Europe still remain at the core of our business.  But today more and more of our member and client companies are asking us to help them with a broader series of questions, including:

- Union recognition and contract law administration in China.
- The changing labour agenda in the US under the Obama administration and its implications for international companies.
- Doing business in India.
- Understanding the role of international framework agreements.
-  Dealing with an ever more complicated web of corporate social responsibility and sustainability surveys and campaigns as they relate to employee relations issues.

With this is mind we have extended and revised our European programme to include a substantial international dimension which looks at the role and tactics of global unions, international CSR initiatives and the challenges they raise for employee relations executives, and a review of employee relations in the world’s most important labour markets.

The new programme retains its intensely practical approach – dealing with the issues that really matter in a manner that enables employee relations executives to spot them early and deal with them effectively.

Managing international employee relations...successfully covers the following main topics;

The role of the international employee relations executive

- Improving business performance and competitiveness in the world’s “legacy” markets of “old Europe”, the United States and Japan;
- Outsourcing, offspring and managing companies in the “new” market economies of China, India, central and eastern Europe including Turkey and Brazil;
- Tracking major labour law trends in key countries – the EU, the USA, Japan and Australia;
- Managing global labour challenges and issues arising from trade unions, issue groups and the global CSR movement.

 Managing global labour
- The international labour law architecture including the ILO and OECD instruments – what it is, how it works and how it is used to influence international companies;
- The global unions movement – their structure, objectives and tactics;
- New forms of industrial action – from bombs and bossnapping to use of the web;
- International framework agreements – who has them, what do they say and how do they work;
- Employee relations and the Corporate Social Responsibility agenda – understanding what is going on, the players involved and their objectives and who in companies they are talking to;
- Developing responses – fro requests for information, to global union campaigns to PR disasters.

 European Works Councils
- Dealing with the new laws and their national transposition;
- The trade union agenda and how to respond;
- Managing an EWC effectively under the new regime.

Key issues and trends in managing European employee relations
- Improving productivity and saving costs through collective bargaining in the most important national systems;
- Introducing change through works councils;
- Redundancies, closures and social plans.

A tour of employee relations practices and developments in important economies
- The United States
- Canada
- China
- The South East Asian tiger economies
- India
- Japan
- Korea
- Brazil
- Australia
- South Africa

Developing an international employee relation strategy
- Knowing what you have
- Keeping up to speed on what is going on
- Conducting reviews and setting objectives for national HR specialists
- Identifying risks
- A proactive agenda to improve business performance
- Managing crises


Programme Team
The programme will be led by Tom Hayes and Alan Wild of BEERG and HR Policy – and they will be joined by Auret van Heerden of the Fair Labor Association on Corporate Social Responsibility and developments in Asia, Jay Harvey from HR Policy Association on the Americas and Robbie Gilbert and Wally Russell from BEERG on European Works Councils and European developments.


Venue and costs
The programme will take place in Sitges (Barcelona) Spain and opens at 1600 on the evening of Monday 26th April and close at lunchtime on Thursday April, 29, 2010.  The cost is €3,900 to cover the programme, materials, dinners, lunches, refreshments and accommodation.  BEERG and HR Policy members will pay the reduced rate of €3,000. To book, just e-mail us at: tom.hayes@beerg.com


… and another thing

Managing collective negotiations successfully
For those wishing to combine this event with our negotiating skills programme – we will run an abridged version of it on Friday 2nd May.  Our well established and successful course deals with planning for, carrying out collective negations, implementing agreements and dealing with disputes. The programme contains case work and negotiating simulations under the guidance of Robbie Gilbert and Wally Russell.

The cost for the negotiating skills course alone (including one night accommodation) is €1,500 or €1,200 for BEERG and HR Policy member companies.  The full package of both programmes can be reserved for €4,700 or €3,750 for member companies.

 

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