Public sector ‘needs tailored, not collective, approach’

Public-sector HR needs to move away from collective industrial relations to a more individually tailored form of employee relations, senior figures from central and local government have agreed.

Christopher Johnson, director of employment for the Civil Service Capability Group at the Cabinet Office, told the Public Sector People Managers’ Association (PPMA) annual conference in Brighton: “The big debate we are having about trade unions is whether to work with them or without them.