According to the newsletter by the Brussels European Employee Relations Group (BEERG), this is among the first new EWC agreements to be negotiated in Anglo-Saxon companies that did not previously have an EWC. Still according to this newsletter, the negotiations have taken close to three years (what the law allows for such discussions before the Subsidiary Requirements are enforced), “as the parties came to the table with very different understandings of how the provisions of the 2009 Directive should be understood in practice.” However, they were able to find a compromise, agreeing that a deal was preferable to the Subsidiary Requirements, which would have resulted in multiple references to the Central Arbitration Committee, the UK’s labor court.
Emerson: agreement establishing European Works Council
The agreement signed on June 18 between the management of the American engineering services group and the SNB is subject to British law. It supervises the information/consultation procedure, providing for a timescale, with a logic of effectiveness.
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