Tighter strike laws, a referendum on a possible Brexit, attendant halting of Europe Social Directive projects (EWC information & consultation), Tom HAYES, Executive Director of BEERG (the Brussels European Employee Relations Group) provides Planet Labor an assessment of the implications of the Conservative party election victory both for the UK and for the European Commission’s ambitions for the relaunch of several social initiatives.
The stunning, and completely unpredicted and unexpected, electoral victory of David Cameron’s Conservative Party in this week’s UK general election is bad news for the unions and mixed news for business. While business is broadly supportive of the Conservatives economic policies, Cameron, on Friday morning, underlined his determination to push ahead with an attempt to renegotiate the UK’s membership of the European Union and to then put the outcome to a referendum in 2017. Most major businesses
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