Source · Select Committees · Business and Trade Committee
Recommendation 10
10
Acknowledged
Develop a clear, long-term industrial relations strategy, credibly resourced and embedded through collaboration.
Recommendation
The Government’s framework for industrial relations provides strong principles that can help to shape a future settlement based on productive engagement between trade unions and employers. To develop this ambition, we recommend that the Government develops a clear and long- term industrial relations strategy to ensure that implementation of those principles is credibly resourced and embedded through enforcement, policy and collaboration with unions, employers, Acas and other important stakeholders. (Recommendation, Paragraph 56)
Government Response Summary
The government committed to exploring the development of an overarching industrial relations framework that will set out its vision and provide guidance, engaging with stakeholders in its formation, but does not commit to a specific long-term strategy with resourcing details.
Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
The Government is committed to a new partnership approach of cooperation and negotiation that sees Government, employers and trade unions working together to tackle the challenges impacting on our economy. The Government wants to create a positive and modern framework for industrial relations that delivers productive and constructive engagement. In our consultation on ‘Making Work Pay: creating a modern framework for industrial relations’2, the Government sought views on the principles that should underpin a modern industrial relations framework, as well as issues for consideration in the design of this framework. The Government response to the consultation committed to exploring the development of an overarching industrial relations framework. This will set out the Government’s vision for a new approach to industrial relations, and provide guidance on how trade unions, workers and employers can work together to deliver positive and effective industrial relations. In forming this framework, we will engage with unions, employers and wider stakeholders and take into account the committee’s recommendations.