The position adopted by the European Trade Union Confederation’s executive committee on 16 March is now available and is attached to this article. The organisation expresses the need to improve EU Directive 2009/38 on European Works Councils, placing particular emphasis on the legal means through which such bodies can make sure their rights are respected. The position paper comes with the European Commission set to publish its assessment of the directive and, based on this, launch a debate on the need to potentially revise the text.
See article n°100122 for our previous piece on ETUC’s position, which also features the views of Peter Scherrer, deputy general secretary of the group, who spoke to Planet Labor.
ETUC underlines the need to issue heavier sanctions when rights to information are not respected. For example, the group calls for relevant company measures to be temporarily suspended, or even nullified, by the courts provided “the national trade unions directly affected by the decision support [it]”.
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