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The Information and Consultation of Employees (ICE) Directive: employer occupation of regulatory space for informing & consulting workers in liberal market regimes

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  • Tony Dobbins

    (Bangor Business School)

  • Tony Dundon

    (National University of Ireland Galway)

  • Eugene Hickland

    (National University of Ireland Galway)

  • Niall Cullinane

    (Queens University Belfast)

  • Jimmy Donaghey

    (University of Warwick)

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This working paper explores the transposing of the EU Information and Consultation of Employees (ICE) Directive in the Liberal Market Economies of the Republic of Ireland (ROI) and Northern Ireland (NI) by considering how employers and employees have responded to national information and consultation regulations. We outline the analytical concept of ‘regulatory space’ and assess the impact of ICE Regulations in both ROI and NI jurisdictions in 4 cross-border case study organisations. The research concludes that an analytical framework to advance the concept of ‘regulatory space’ enables a refined assessment of employer and employee responses to employee voice regulation. Employer occupancy of regulatory space for voice is explained in part by a reassessment of the regulatory function of the State, from one of employee to employer protection. The UK and Irish governments both closely circumscribed the parameters of the national ICE Regulations to limit encroachment on the terrain of managerial prerogative. Ambivalence of national unions towards contesting the space opened by the ICE Directive also aids employers in occupying space for voice. The case evidence suggests that, consequently, employers largel

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  • Tony Dobbins & Tony Dundon & Eugene Hickland & Niall Cullinane & Jimmy Donaghey, 2011. "The Information and Consultation of Employees (ICE) Directive: employer occupation of regulatory space for informing & consulting workers in liberal market regimes," Working Papers 11007, Bangor Business School, Prifysgol Bangor University (Cymru / Wales).
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