7 Responses

1. Employee Representatives
   Louise

   We have three Employee Rep Groups who have been operating for several years, if you email with your contact details, I would be happy to share our experience.

   Louise Trethowan
   Parkside Housing Group

   [email protected]

2. Elected Employee Representatives
   Louise

   We are a registered charity and set up a Staff Council 3 years ago. If you would like to email [email protected] she would be willing to speak to you about the process.

   Cathy

3. Super Users
   I have been an employee Representative, and can share some experiences.

   I also have set up several in house schemes which I call ‘Super User Programmes’ these can be tailored to your needs. As each area of a business is represented by one or more people, and they then become link between the department, people and the business. Email me off line if you need any help.

4. 3 years experience of staff forum
   Our staff forum has been operating for 3+ years. Has been instrumental in successful consultations on communications, consultation on contract changes, redundancy programmes, employee benefits and working practices.
   Total employees on site 350; each member represents approx 40 people; elected for 2 years; meet every month.
   If you contact me I would be happy to pass on some lessons learnt.
   [email protected]

5. Elected Consultation Committees
   Please feel free to contact me to discus our experiences of setting up a committee this year.

6. One per business area
   We have an employee committee for our 450 staff. Each business area has one representative. 1 for Head Office and one for each region. Our largest region is about 150 whilst our smallest is 35. Anymore representatives and the whole thing gets out of hand.

   We asked for volunteers to stand for election and then held a ballot within each region. We got about a 50% turnout.

   Each post is for 3 years or until they leave the Department which is every first.

   If you need anymore info please email on [email protected]

7. EU Learning Reps. Study Visit
   We are hosting an EU & DfES sponsored study visit by key HRD policy makers and practitioners in May/June 2003. The Learning Reps. scheme is the specific theme of the visit. Delegates will (probably) be from Germany and one of the pre-accession countries (e.g.Poland or Bulgaria).

   I am looking for orgnisations in the West Midlands that can demonstrate the success of the Learning Reps initiative with a view to arranging a visit (approx 2 hrs) to talk to HRD managers, panel members and beneficiaries of this programme.

   If you could help out with a visit, or would like to talk to the delegates, please contact: Terry Pugh (MD Entente UK – the Exchange Network for Training and Enterprise).
   Tel: 07966 44 29 21;
   E-mail: [email protected]