Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004
The Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004 (SI 3426/2004) are a United Kingdom statutory instrument. This follows the EU Information and Consultation of Employees Directive 2002/14/EC establishing a general framework for informing and consulting employees.
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The ICE Regulations require that employees are informed and consulted on all contract or workplace organisation changes.[1] Consultation means an "obligation to negotiate" with "a view to reaching agreement".[2] The penalty on an employer for failure to consult or follow the Regulations is up to £75,000 for each violation.[3]
Negotiation and consultation may take place under a voluntary agreement with an employer, particularly through a trade union under a collective agreement. If there is no voluntary agreement, formal consultation procedure may be triggered by at least 2% of employees, and then requires election of a body of all staff. This procedure must "enable the information and consultation representatives to meet the employer at the relevant level of management depending on the subject under discussion".[4]
See also[]
- UK labour law
- European labour law
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References[]
- PL Davies and C Kilpatrick, 'UK Worker Representation after Single Channel' (2004) 33 Industrial Law Journal 121
- KD Ewing and GM Truter, 'The Information and Consultation of Employees' Regulations: Voluntarism's Bitter Legacy' (2005) 68 Modern Law Review 626
- United Kingdom labour law
- Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom
- 2004 in British law
- 2004 in labor relations