Today, July 26, the European Commission released the result of “an evaluation to identify excessive burdens, overlaps, gaps or inconsistencies which may have appeared since the adoption of three EU Directives regarding information and consultation of workers (the collective redundancies Directive, the transfers of undertakings Directive and on the Directive establishing a general framework relating to information and consultation). The report concludes that, generally speaking, those three texts are relevant, even though they are not enough to develop a social dialogue culture where it is missing. To solve this, the Commission doesn’t intend to legislate any further but wants the stakeholders in the field and national governments to take responsibility and make these rights to information and consultation a reality. (Ref. 130509)
The three Directives analyzed were:
- Directive 98/59/EC on collective redundancies, which provides that employee representatives have to be informed and consulted in these cases;
- Directive 2001/23/EC on transfers of undertakings – likewise;
- Directive 2002/14/EC establishing a general framework relating to information and consultation of workers, which represents the minimum joint basis of rights and prerogatives for employee representation structures in Europe.
This evaluation was part of
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