In a decision published on 12 February, the UK’s Central Arbitration Committee said that management does not have to wait for the EWC to give its opinion before taking action at national or local level. The decision was made in relation to the subsidiary requirements contained in UK legislation governing the EWC in question, that of software company Oracle.
The Oracle EWC works under the Subsidiary Requirements, as set out in the UK’s Transnational Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations (TICER). In a complaint to the CAC the EWC said that Regulation 19E(c) of the Subsidiary Requirements required central management to ensure that European and local consultation in relation to “substantial changes in work organisation or contractual relations” were linked so as to begin within a reasonable time of each other.
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