On 16 March, the European Trade Union organisation’s executive committee confirmed its position over the improvement EU Directive 2009/38 on European Works Councils, one which places particular emphasis on how to enforce the rights of employee representatives. The European Commission has to publish its assessment of the directive and, based on this, launch a debate on the need to revise the text.
“We all agreed on the collection of demands”, Peter Scherrer, told Planet Labor. When asked whether ETUC had taken its stance very early, ahead of any eventual legislative initiative, the confederation’s deputy general secretary pointed to the current backdrop: “It’s the Commission that is late. In the EWC directive, the Commission had to prepare an evaluation about the impact of the recast in June last year. We still have no evaluation. We were told in October last year that the Commission wil
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