Tom Hayes

Director of Tom Hayes and Associates (THASCS).

Tom Hayes has been deeply involved with European Works Councils since the early 1990s. He assisted in the negotiation of EWC agreements in a large number of major international companies and continues to support management in the effective operation of these EWCs.

He advises a large number of transnational corporations on European employee relations strategy. Tom has a B.A. from University College Dublin in History and Politics. He lectured for several years on European industrial relations in the National College of Industrial Relations in Dublin and has been a guest lecturer in University College, Dublin, Galway University, Nottingham Trent University and Leicester University.

He is the co-author of the book: RESPECT: Thoughts on Workplace Collective Bargaining, written with Rick Warters. Tom is also the co-editor Practical Employment Law, a guide to Irish labour law and is co-author of Dismissal Law in Ireland. He is co-author, with Alan Wild, of BEERG/HR Policy publications on the recast European Works Council Directive and global collective bargaining trends in 2009.

Tom was previously European Affairs Director of CHRO Global and the Executive Director of BEERG, which he founded.

 

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