Employee representation

A high turnout of voters marked the latest works council elections in Germany, underlining their importance to the German industrial relations system. However, a study published in January 2015 shows that they remain male-dominated, with women holding only 25% of the seats. Two-thirds of works

There has been a steady decline in union density in Ireland since 2003, according to a new study by Frank Walsh, School of Economics, University College Dublin.

New sectoral wage-setting mechanisms are established under the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2015.

Unions have criticised the new act governing law enforcement services as undermining the activity of interest representation organisations.

Sweden has a tradition of high trade union density rates, but the share of Swedish workers who are members of a trade union has dropped in the last decade from 80% to 70%. This might seem high from a global perspective, but Sweden is also one of the countries where unionisation is declining most

A Slovenian parliamentary group sought to secure employee participation in the management of Slovenian Sovereign Holdings, which manages the country’s state-owned assets.

Following years of declining membership, trade union numbers in Germany began to stabilise in 2014.

Members of the armed forces, police, department of civil defence and prison wardens have been given the right to join a trade union – but not to strike.