EU: publication of a report on the experience of European work’s councils in the new Member States

In its latest report entitled "The experience of European Work's Councils in new Member States", the Dublin Foundation evaluates the impact of the EU enlargement on EWCs in place and stresses the difficulties faced by the representatives of new Member States. (Ref. 070066)
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The report is based on a case study of European work’s councils in large companies (General Motors-Opel, Deutsche Telecom, Bosch, Siemens, Volkswagen, Unilever, Sanofi-Aventis…) operative in Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Integration of new European members in EWCs. The authors of the report distinguish two cases. The first in which the integration of the new European members within the EWC as observers was done well before the EU enlargement. These experiments were often succ

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