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Overview
The era of confining collective labor to its local worksite is over. Multinationals today increasingly need a coherent global strategy to confront organized labor—trade unions and works councils—internationally. Today, global HR integration, global M&A deals, and cross-border union offensives push multinationals to take an aligned, global approach with organized labor.
With a solid, thorough global labor platform, foreign worker representation becomes less imposing an obstacle each time headquarters decides to launch some new global alignment initiative or when the organization gets targeted in a cross-border union campaign. With a global labor platform in place, foreign labor compliance becomes orderly, predictable and headquarters-driven—a way to avoid a reactive crisis where foreign organized labor seems to get the upper hand. But a global labor strategy is impossible without understanding the very-different ways organized labor works around the world.
Please join Donald C. Dowling, Jr., shareholder at Littler Mendelson P.C. for this fast-paced session as he explains how “trade unions” and “works councils” work outside the U.S.—and how multinational headquarters can proactively manage them with a global labor strategy.
What you will learn:
- Why a multinational needs a coordinated approach to organized labor internationally
- The very-different ways that organized labor works outside the U.S.
- How to build a globally-aligned labor strategy or global labor platform
Who should attend:
- HR and labor executives with international responsibilities
- In-house labor/employment counsel at multinationals
- Lawyers and consultants advising on international M&A deals and cross-border HR initiative