EU: European social partners to negotiate the revision of the EWC directive

On April 2, in a letter sent to Vladimir Spidla, European Commissioner in charge of Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, the three European employers' organizations – BusinessEurope, CEEP and the UEAPME – announced that they intended to negotiate about the revision of the 1994 directive on EWCs. The ETUC decided the same. (Ref. 080261)
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As an answer to the second phase of consultation launched by the European Commission
on the revision of Directive 94/45 of September 22, 1994
on the establishment of the European works council (see our article No. 080142), the three European employers’
organizations announced that they intended to open negotiations on this theme. Based
on a deep analysis of the practices and the needs of these staff representation
bodies, the three signatory parties explained, “Our main goal is to agree on
ame

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