On 13 March 2019, Europe’s co-legislators (EU Parliament, EU Council of Ministers, European Commission) agreed on a draft directive that aims to facilitate company ‘mobility’ within the EU, while safeguarding the interests of stakeholders, and especially employees and their representatives (c.f. article No. 11059 for an overview following the announcement). Here we provide the draft text including some comments pertaining to the aspect of employee representation.
From the very outset (c.f. article No. 10654) the European Commission has strived to facilitate cross-border company conversions, mergers and divisions whilst safeguarding workers rights and protections and inhibiting such operations from circumventing their obligations in terms of employee representation.
The first safeguard concerns employee representatives’ rights to information. The draft directive reaffirms that the representative bodies (national and European) must be kept informed and con
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