Employee representation

On 19 May 1998, the so-called "Commission on co-determination" (Kommission Mitbestimmung) presented its final report, entitled /Co-determination and new company cultures - balance and perspectives/ ("Mitbestimmung und neue Unternehmenskulturen - Bilanz und Perspektiven", Bericht der Kommission

Two laws in Austria regulate electronic surveillance at work. The first is the Labour Constitution Act 1974 (Arbeitsverfassungsgesetz, or ArbVG), especially sections 91 and 96. Amongst many amendments to this law, only the one enacted in 1986 is important in relation to this topic, as it introduced

Some 780 professional football players are members of the Football Section (Fachgruppe Fußball, FG Fußball) of the Arts, Media and Free Professions Trade Union (Gewerkschaft Kunst, Medien, freie Berufe, KMfB). This is about 95% of all professional players in the country, according to FG Fußball. On

Negotiations over the renewal of Italy's public administration national collective agreements are underway in mid-1998. The talks are the first occasion on which new regulations on trade union representativeness in the sector have been applied. The rules have helped considerably in simplifying the

On 21 May 1998, the Government published a white paper entitled Fairness at work [1] setting out its legislative agenda in the area of industrial relations. As well as giving details of the Government's proposed statutory trade union recognition procedure, the white paper outlines a range of other

April 1998 saw the release of the first figures for company-level collective bargaining in 1995-6, compiled by the Observatory on Company-level Bargaining in Italy (Osco). The results are of particular interest, as they refer to the period immediately following the reform of the Italian bargaining

The Dutch Government is seeking to promote the participation of people from ethnic minorities on the labour market by means of a new law, adopted in April 1998. Previous legislation was generally considered to be inadequate. Many provisions of the new law have been borrowed from a 1996 agreement

The collective agreement on wages in the Austrian construction industry proper covers 130,000 workers out of a total of about 200,000 in the construction industry in a broader sense. There are three parties to the negotiations: the Union of Construction and Wood Workers (Gewerkschaft Bau-Holz, GBH)