EU: first consultation phase opens over revising EC European Works Council Directive

On 11 April the European Commission announced the launch of the first phase of consultation of European social partners on a revision of the European Works Council (EWC) Directive 2009/38. As a required process for any social initiative, this stage will last six weeks and will address the relevance and direction of the project to revise the Directive. With this, the European Commission is following up on the European Parliament’s February resolution calling for the Directive’s revision given th