On June 20, the Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs adopted the report presented by Thomas Händel from the Confederal Group of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) on “cross-border collective bargaining and transnational social dialogue.” This report defends the need for an optional framework for the negotiation of European framework agreements and promotes the role played by European trade union federations – and EWCs – as legitimate parties to negotiate these agreements. (Ref. 130468)
An optional framework for transnational bargaining. The report stresses the voluntary nature of this transnational bargaining approach but invites the European Commission to look into the introduction of an optional framework in order to provide greater legal security, greater transparency, and foreseeable legal effects. For several years, the European executive has been trying to introduce this optional framework and the latest initiative was the consultation launched in September 2012...
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