Employee representation

On 1 February 2011, the Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW Köln [1]) presented the results (in German, 220Kb PDF) [2] of the latest works council elections held between March and May 2010. There is no public register of works councils, and the results of the works council elections are not

In February 2006, in a joint memorandum entitled /Legal Enactment and Legislation of the Right of Workers to Join a Trade Union Organisation and Bargain Collectively/, the country’s main trade union organisations – the Democratic Labour Federation of Cyprus (DEOK [1]), Pancyprian Federation of

According to a recent study by Trine P. Larsen, Steen E. Navrbjerg and Mikkel Møller Johansen at the Employment Relations Research Centre ( FAOS [1]), University of Copenhagen, only one in two Danish workplaces have a shop steward (workplace union members’ representative [2]). The study /Shop

In 2006, the Korean tyre company Hankook chose Hungary to be the centre of its European supply operations and received more than €100 million from the Hungarian government to support the investment. The factory opened in 2007 and ever since there have been regular industrial disputes between

In March 2010, a public committee set up to review the state of industrial democracy in Norway presented its recommendations in the form of a comprehensive report (in Norwegian) [1] (NOU 2010: 1). The recommendations show that there is a general consensus about the importance of the present

The PSA Peugeot Citroën Group [1] has 190,000 employees worldwide, including 104,500 in France and 61,200 in Europe. It operates in 160 countries, generating one third of its sales outside Europe. The group owns two major subsidiaries: Faurecia [2] (52,715 employees) and Gefco [3] (9,620 employees)

In August 2008, the French parliament adopted a law on ‘social democracy and working time [1] reform’, which has radically changed the rules regarding trade union representativeness [2]. By 2012, the majority rule (which states that a trade union affiliated to a representative confederation at

The Employment and Industrial Relations Act (EIRA) (216Kb PDF) [1], which regulates labour relations in Malta, defines ‘employment’ in relation to a trade dispute as any relationship whereby one person does work or performs services for another, ‘other than a service as a member of a disciplined