Drawing on analysis of 2004 and 2011 WERS data and extensive case studies of employee consultation bodies, this paper highlights major problems with the regulatory design and enforcement of the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004 and advocates reforms to improve their...

Employee voice has been an enduring theme within the employment relations literature. This article profiles the incidence of a range of direct and indirect employee voice mechanisms within multinational companies (MNCs) and, using an analytical framework, identifies a number of different...

This paper presents a systematic analysis of the factors influencing the nature of the "constrained choices" being made by management and employee representatives in concluding agreements establishing EWCs. Four influences - a "statutory model effect"; a "learning effect"; a "country effect";...