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The Welsh Way: Top 5 takeaways for UK employers from the Welsh Social Partnership Conference

IPA's Head of Learning & Development Services, Lucy O'Melia reports on the event - the landscape of industrial relations in the UK is undergoing significant shifts, prompting a re-evaluation of collaborative practices between employers and trade unions. Social Partnership gained a statutory foothold in Wales in 2023, and places a requirement on public bodies to engage early and collaboratively with union representatives, treating unions as a strategic partner in their decision-making processes.
IPA Employee Voice Hub - Fair & Flexible Working For All - 17th July 2pm to 3pm

Astrid Allen, Institute for Employment Studies (IES), will present findings from recent research into flexible working for frontline and site-based workers drawing on the recent evaluation of different flexible working initiatives introduced at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation NHS Trust, Sir Robert McAlpine and Wickes. The ‘Flexible working for all’ project aimed to reduce organisational disparities and improve the health and wellbeing of employees within the participating organisations.
Lucy O'Melia

Head of learning & development
Let’s start talking: rebooting the partnership agenda between government, unions and employers

There has been much discussion about the wide-ranging reforms to working lives embodied in Labour’s New Deal for working people. Taken with other much needed reforms of the labour market, including skills policy and a serious commitment to return to work strategies, this package of measures will require detailed and collaborative implementation should Labour form the next government.