LEGISLATION - moving targets, continuous risk!

The waves of employment legislation can be very complex, unclear, and even impractical to implement. It leaves employers with confusion, headaches and a lack of knowledge on how the legislation fully impacts on their organisation.

In these increasing litigious times, the balance of power has been continually transferred from the employer to the employee. In the UK we are experiencing a dramatic shift in the social values applicable at work, driven by numerous Government and EU initiatives, all of which have profound and potentially expensive consequences for employers. Despite their best efforts to be compliant, every change in legislation produces yet another risk!

Employers are now faced with a continuous barrage of new legislation, differing Health & Safety requirements and onerous compliance issues. When we consider these in the context of a workforce whose very nature is changing – whose requirement for flexibility and mobility is high, who no longer seek jobs for life, and who often seek short assignments that interest them, we have another set of management issues to consider.

Each industry sector has its own ‘cross to bear’ – the financial services industry still operates under the dark clouds of the pensions & endowment mis-selling scandals; IR35 has significant ramifications for temporary self-employed professionals; who can forget the challenges now faced by the rail industry in terms of health & safety, and so it goes on……..

With the expansion of the EU we now have further issues with labour mobility and the right to work, all in a society that is continually facing the threat of terrorist infiltration and potential attack.

As an employer, you need to be not only aware, but actively tracking and recording numerous characteristics of your workforce, and being able to comply with the changing legislation regarding their make-up, skills, training and working conditions.

Ergons Human Capability Analytics solution not only enable you to gain commercial advantage through workforce alignment, it enables you to define, measure and track your skills, competencies, and diversity in a fair, legal and auditable manner.