The Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs has prepared the new draft Employees' Representatives Act, justifing the drafting of the new Act citing the need to transpose into Estonian legislation the directive "general framework for informing and consulting employees in the European Community". According to trade-unions the draft law is designed to exclude the participation of trade unions in information and consultation activities. (Réf. 06262)
The current Employees’ Representatives Act has been in force since 1993. According to current Estonian laws and existing practices, the employees of an enterprise can be represented either by a trade union representative or by a representative elected by a general meeting of employees. The draft law’s proper aim should have been to simply establish the contents and the procedure for information and consultation. But it categorically excludes trade unions’ right to participate in information...
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