Information and consultation

Current joint CIPD/BERR/ACAS project - longitudinal employer case studies 

• We are working on a project exploring the impact of the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations, which have applied to organisations of 100 or more employees from April 2007. The work is funded by the Employment Market Analysis and Research branch of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR), and is co-funded by ACAS and CIPD.
  
  The research is being conducted by a team of academics from Warwick Business School, Mark Hall, Michael Terry and Jane Parker, as well as John Purcell, formerly of the University of Bath School of Management and now with Acas as their Academic Adviser.
  
  Initial findings from the study were reported in Implementing Information and Consultation: Early Experience under the ICE Regulations, published in September 2007. Drawing on interviews carried out in 13 case study organisations, it reports on the impact of the ICE arrangements on management decision-making, employee commitment, employment relations climate and organisational effectiveness.
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  A joint advisory group, made up of representatives from the DTI, CIPD and Acas, meets regularly to monitor the project’s progress.
  
  A further report is anticipated towards the end of 2008.
  
  The CIPD representative on the group is employee relations adviser Ben Willmott. 
• Contact Ben Willmott
  
   
  
  

• Previous research projects and publications

  
  
  
• We have hosted  joint events with the LSE and London Metropolitan University on ‘Voice and Value’.
  All talk but no voice is a summary of the 2006 conference.
• Read the conference summary
  Employee information and consultation: regulation, reform or revolution is a summary of the 2005 conference.
• Read the conference summary
  
  
• A research report by Beaumont and Hunter was published in March 2005. Making consultation work: the importance of process, considers what consultation means, and what it actually involves in practice across the organisation. The report can be purchased online in our bookstore.
• Buy the report
  
  
• A guide was published in November 2004 to help employers in establishing meaningful and effective information and consultation arrangements.
• View the guide
  
  
• Professors Laurie Hunter and Phil Beaumont's initial report, Information and Consultation was published in October 2003. This is available to purchase online in our bookstore.
  
• Go to the CIPD Bookstore
  
• View the summary
  
  
• We have also produced some basic introductory guidance in a factsheet to draw together the key points about the Directive.
• View the factsheet

Contact details

• Ben Willmott, Adviser - Employee Relations