Request an information and consultation agreement with your employer
Negotiate an agreement
You need to negotiate with your employer when they agree - or the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) instruct them - to set up an agreement.
The terms will need to be agreed and written down by your employer and the employee representatives.
If the negotiations are started by the employer without receiving a request, they must inform all employees in writing about what’s happening. You can complain to CAC if they do not.
Selection of employee representatives
Your employer must make sure that every employee is represented by at least one representative. They can choose whether this is done by appointing or electing the representatives but all employees have a right to be involved in this process.
Complain to CAC within 21 days of the selection of the representatives if you think your employer has not done this properly.
CAC may tell the employer to rerun the process for appointing or electing representatives.
If negotiations fail
If your employer does not enter negotiations or an agreement cannot be reached then they must give you the following information and consult with you on:
- what the company or organisation is doing, its economic situation and its future prospects
- any changes to employee numbers and organisation, employment prospects, and particularly any threats to jobs within the company or organisation
- decisions that might lead to changes in work organisation or in employment contracts including TUPE transfers and collective redundancies
Complaints when an agreement is in place
Complain to CAC by filling in the relevant form if you believe:
- your employer has not complied with the terms of an agreement
- your employer has made an unreasonable request that you keep information confidential
- that disclosing particular information would harm your business