In the debate leading up to the publication of the proposed Government White Paper Fairness at Work, companies which have de‐recognised unions have been portrayed by the unions as looking backwards to “Victorian” employment practices. This paper traces the development of “single...

This article reviews the roles and activities of non-union employee representatives (NERs) acting as forum officers in a large Internet finance company. Currently there is little academic coverage concerning NERs in this sector, including their contributions to employment relations, their...

The Government White Paper, Fairness at Work , offers the opportunity for a statutory procedure for the introduction of collective bargaining when a majority of trade union members within a workplace require it. Within this proposal assumptions are made concerning the nature of individual...

Abstract Entsandte Arbeitnehmer stellen kein grundsätzlich neues Phänomen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt dar. Historisch sind , Wanderarbeiter 4 gut dokumentiert. In der europäischen Union jedoch kommt Wanderarbeitern ein eigener Status zu, repräsentiert durch den Begriff „Posted Worker“. Mit der...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate union and non-union’s mechanisms ability to “contest” the realm of workplace employee representation at two UK sites. The paper directly compares one union and one non-union mechanism of employee representation at separate sites by...