The Industrial Relations Research Unit (IRRU) is a leading European centre for research and analysis on the employment relationship.

Our work combines long-term fundamental research and short-term commissioned projects. In both we maintain the independence and integrity of approach which have been the hallmark of IRRU since its establishment in 1970. The Director of IRRU is Professor Paul Marginson.

We aim to advance understanding of the rapidly changing world of employment through in-depth, critical and theoretically-informed empirical research. In so doing, we also seek to improve the quality of data and analysis available for policy-making by government, employers and trade unions.

IR update at

EIRO /EWCO:

• 18 January 2010
  Survey highlights employer responses to recession and employment regulation
  
• 18 January 2010
  Social partners react to planned public spending cuts
  
• 17 December 2009
  Conservative Party seeks new UK opt-out from EU employment legislation
  
• 2 December 2009
  Strikes at Royal Mail called off as negotiations continue
• 2 December 2009
  Legal challenge to UK retirement age fails
  
•  20 November 2009
  Trade union welcomes General Motors’ decision not to sell Opel
• Comparative Study
  Multinational companies and collective bargaining

IRRU's current research clusters around five themes:

• Europeanisation and internationalisation of employment relations, including employment practice in multinational companies
  
• equality, inequality and diversity and  in employment
• evolving forms of employee representation and voice
• small firms, payment systems and employment relations
• legal regulation of the employment relationship

View forthcoming IRRU seminars & events.

Research Co-ordinator
IRRU
Warwick Business School
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL

irruoffice@wbs.ac.uk
t: +44 (0)24 7652 4268
f: +44 (0)24 7652 4184

IRRU provides major research resources for the academic and practitioner communities, including:

• highly regarded textbooks on industrial relations and on human resource management
• regular online features on developments in industrial relations and working conditions for the European Industrial Relations and the European Working Conditions Observatories