Employee Relations: Volume 24 Issue 6

Employee relations public policy developments, 1997‐2001: A break with the past?

Outlines the new individual and collective rights established for all employees by the first Blair Labour Government. It then discusses the rationale for these developments…

The operation of the Low Pay Commission

The paper provides an account of the working of the Low Pay Commission that was established to advise on the introduction of a statutory National Minimum Wage for the UK. It…

The principles and factors guiding the CAC

This article attempts to set out the broad approach which the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) takes in statutory recognition, and also to describe, in a little more detail…

Individual statutory employment rights since 1997: constrained expansion

This article explores developments in statutory individual employment rights since the election of the Labour Government in 1997. It also discusses the mechanisms for the…

New Labour and New Unionism, 1997‐2001: but is it the same old story?

This article examines the impact of the 1997‐2001 Labour Government’s public policy on British trade unions. First, the ideologies of New Labour and New Unionism are considered;…

Gender, Diversity and Trade Unions: International Perspectives

Ethnicity, Equality of Opportunity and the British National Health Service