EWC newsletter 2010 nr 1
Dear readers,
Welcome to the electronic newsletter of the EWC Service of FNVFormaat. With this newsletter the EWC Service will update you on recent developments concerning European Works Councils. We hope you will enjoy reading this newsletter.
Please forward this newsletter to interested colleagues.
Petra Molenaar
Senior trainer/consultant EWC Service FNVFormaat
European Court: consultation is obligatory before collective redundancies
How lawful is collective redundancy when the employees’ representatives have not been able to make use of their information and consultation rights? Since September, there is new European jurisprudenceece regarding this question. Read on...
Time for the introduction of a new EWC directive
FNV Formaat organizes an EWC platform three times a year where about a hundred Dutch EWC members exchange experiences. Last summer, they could hear at first hand how the revision of the EWC directive has proceeded and what this means for the near future. The Member States have two years in which to adapt their own legislation. Read on...
FNV unions convene a European conference
On Friday 29 January, several unions of the FNV (Federatie Nederlandse Vakbeweging: Dutch Trade Union Confederation) will organise a European conference. The moderator is Eddy Stam, advisor on employee participation to the European Metalworkers’ Federation. The conference will take place in 't Veerhuis in Nieuwegein. Read on...
Series: a practical guide for the new EWC Directive
How should you act and negotiate until 6 June 2011?
The new EWC Directive (2009/38/EC) appeared on 6 May 2009. The Member States of the European Economic Area, 30 in all, have two years to process the new stipulations into their own legislation. We are in an intermediary phase until 6 June 2011. This has consequences for EWC agreements that are concluded between now and June 2011. Read on...
The British Council's encouraging learning curve
More often than not, it takes time to start an EWC on a good footing and establish favourable conditions for genuine dialogue. No reason to get discouraged, as the British Council demonstrates with its own 'Treaty of Lisbon', signed in November. Read on...
Cehave begins European consultation with full conviction
It’s not common practice that the Board of Management of an international company takes the initiative to set up an EWC because it really wants one. It happened with Cehave Landbouwbelang, a cooperative enterprise with 2100 employees. The EWC was created quickly and smoothly and has been functioning since November. Read on..
Accepting confidentiality is not self-evident
On 3 December, the EWC Platform met in order to discuss dealing with confidential information and the way in which management sometimes makes use of its right to confidentiality. The latter occurs mostly by appealing to the stock-market sensitivity of the subject. This is a core problem in many EWCs. Management tends to consider information confidential very quickly. Employees’ representatives from various countries have diverging conceptions about how one has to deal with confidential information. Read on...
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