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Behind the European Works Councils Directive: The European Commission's Legislative Strategy
Author(s) -
Hall Mark
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
british journal of industrial relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.665
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-8543
pISSN - 0007-1080
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8543.1992.tb00791.x
Subject(s) - directive , legislature , european union , public administration , european commission , government (linguistics) , commission , mutual recognition , political science , representation (politics) , business , international trade , law , politics , linguistics , philosophy , computer science , programming language
The aim of the draft European works councils Directive is to bridge the gap between increasingly transnational corporate decision‐making and employees' nationally‐defined information and consultation rights. The proposal seeks to accommodate existing national systems of employee representation, but in the UK auxiliary measures would be needed to designate employee representatives in the absence of voluntary trade union recognition by employers. Although the Directive is strongly opposed by the UK government, the Maastricht social policy protocol has boosted its prospects of being adopted by the other 11 EC countries, with important repercussions for UK‐based multinationals.