The European Commission has lowered the objective to draw up an optional framework for transnational agreements as part of the Social Agenda for 2005-10 in the working document published on July 2. Based on the Commission's previous works on that topic, the text plans to set up an expert group on transnational company agreements to support this form of social dialogue. The support will also be financial through budget headings on industrial relations. (Ref. 080554)
The European Commission is working “one step at a time” to support transnational company bargaining. Still those steps are small, since the communication first announced turned into a working document. This form of negotiation is necessary now because of the growing international dimension of company organization and of merger and take-over operations, the emergence of European companies, the increasing mobility of the factors of production.
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