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The Herman Trend Alert November 17, 2010 Trends in Employment Law In September, Littler Mendelson, the world's largest employment law firm, released a fascinating white paper, titled "THE LITTLER TEN: Employment, Labor and Benefit Law Trends for Navigating the New Decade". This 78-page document provides a valuable overview for human resource and other corporate professionals. Moreover, it delivers an informed analysis and suggests best practices for organizations worldwide that want to be proactive about the future. Here we highlight a few of the most important shifts detailed. First, "the digitization of work will redefine employment law". This shift will especially affect telecommuting and social media. Just recently, we in the US saw case in which an employee was fired for publically criticizing her boss online. This type of challenge to corporate authority is likely to escalate. Our second point Littler calls the "Brave New World of Employment Litigation". This development includes e-discovery, privatization of litigation through ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) and virtual trials. Not surprisingly, in the next decade mediation will continue to be a common way to resolve cases. Due to the interest in mediation in Europe, the US will export its mediation practices and techniques. (Our forecast is that interest in South America and perhaps even Asia will follow suit.) There will be an increasing emphasis on negotiation and dispute resolution skills in legal education, while employers will adopt more sophisticated internal dispute resolution mechanisms that will allow them to avoid using outside professionals. To avoid litigation, employers will greatly expand their wage and hour compliance and training programs. Parties involved in trials may be linked electronically using the teleprescence-type systems already available and trials may be shown live on Internet feeds. Labor organizing will intensify. Currently in the US, about 37.4 percent of the public sector labor force is unionized, while 7.2 percent of private sector employees. Littler believes that "multi-national 'super unions' will skyrocket. To avoid this situation, Littler recommends employers conduct “labor audits” to determine whether there are any areas in the organization that are more vulnerable to union organizing. Like we do, Littler foresees "a large permanent contingent workforce, a growing skill shortage, high structural unemployment, and undocumented workers will force legislative, judicial, and regulatory reform". We highly recommend that our readers download this valuable (and free) document at http://bit.ly/9mrABD. © Copyright 1998- by The Herman Group, Inc. -- reproduction for publication is encouraged, with the following attribution: From "The Herman Trend Alert," by Joyce Gioia, Strategic Business Futurist. 1.336.210.3548 or https://hermangroup.com. To sign up, visit https://HermanTrendAlert.com. The Herman Trend Alert is a trademark of The Herman Group, Inc."
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