Employee representation

A preliminary draft bill on worker representation, prepared by Pietro Gasperoni of the Democratic Left, part of Italy's ruling "Ulivo" coalition (Democratici di Sinistra-l'Ulivo), brings together several different proposals submitted by various parliamentary groups between 1996 and early 1998

Works council [1] s or comités d'entreprisewere created by law in 1945 and provide one of the channels of worker representation in private sector companies with over 50 employees (currently around 6 million workers are employed in such companies). They are made up of both the head of the company and

France's Economic and Social Council (Conseil Economique et Social, CES), a kind of consultative parliament, is comprised of representatives of employers' organisations, trade union organisations deemed representative at national level, representatives of various social groups and leading figures

In early March 1998, a working group from the Institute of Labour of the Greek General Confederation of Labour (INE-GSEE) submitted to the GSEE a report containing proposals on the independence of trade unions from state intervention. The GSEE executive will examine the report, which is of a purely

Over the early months of 1998, the industrial dispute at Ryanair, Ireland's independent airline (IE9802141F [1]), has given rise to fears that the three-year /Partnership 2000/ agreement, negotiated between employers, trade unions and government in January 1997 (IE9702103F [2]) might be put in

Total membership of the largest German trade union confederation, the German Federation of Trade Unions (Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund, DGB), stood at 8.6 million on 31 December 1997, a fall of 350,000 (or 3.9%) since 31 December 1996. Table 1 below provides details of changes in membership levels of

The EU Council Directive on the establishment of a European Works Council or a procedure in Community-scale undertakings and Community-scale groups of undertakings for the purposes of informing and consulting employees [1] (94/45/EC) was adopted on 22 September 1994 and came into force two years

Collective agreements are very important as instruments for the regulation of working life in Sweden, both with regard to their content and to their coverage.