The principle is acted but the intervention modalities yet have to be discussed. European Federation of Public Services Unions (EPSU) is currently creating a fund to finance the legal actions of EWCs suing when their rights to information and consultation have not been respected. (Ref. 070936)
This fund should “mostly enable to intervene to pay for parts of European works’ councils legal appeals when they cannot afford to bring these suits”, explained Jan Willem Goudriaan, EPSU Deputy General Secretary. Its allocation will not be publicly revealed but the Federation is currently defining the situations in which EWCs will be allowed to ask for this help. Presumably, they will be “cases when the employer did not respect his/her information and consultation duties, especially in restruc
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